MOTM

All,
  Happy thanksgiving first of all.....  We give thanks to Paul for MOTM of 
course..

anyway, on the Joystick thread.  My only bitch with a panel mounted joystick 
is that with our heavy patch cords (this would hold true with any modular for 
that matter) I think that the cords and knob tweakings would inevitably move 
the stick around a bit.  This would be shitty.  I would rather go for the 
panel with a connector for one or two Joysticks for remote use.  we could 
then make custom control consoles or just have a joystick(s) or pedal(s) 
plugged in and tweak away.
I think that a nicely done wooden control console with two joysticks and a 
few cv sources, gate trig buttons etc would be great.  You could just patch 
'er up then sit back and explore with all the controls.  Get that german 
company to make you a nice custom panel or maybe use two 3u MOTM blanks from 
Paul... yeah that would be great.  Sit back and explore...  Or hand your 
friend one joystick, you take the other and tweak away..
sounds cool indeed..
Hey, if we could decide on a Joystick company and model (www.chproducts.com 
looks great), then we could get panels silkscreened in the next run for a 
custom control console..  although I guess we don't want to jump the gun and 
do all of this before we hear what Paul had on his mind for this module.  
Yeah check out ch products' website under industrial products.  Joysticks, 
switch sticks, trackballs, button strips, all kinds of cool stuff. joysticks 
with buttons on top for that real "VideoGame" feel.
turkeystuffyourface
~Steve

>Hey, if we could decide on a Joystick company and model (www.chproducts.com
>looks great), then we could get panels silkscreened in the next run for a
>custom control console..  although I guess we don't want to jump the gun and
>do all of this before we hear what Paul had on his mind for this module.
>Yeah check out ch products' website under industrial products.  Joysticks,
>switch sticks, trackballs, button strips, all kinds of cool stuff. joysticks
>with buttons on top for that real "VideoGame" feel.

The CHProducts stuff looks highly cool, especially the 3-way + button. Hate
to think what that would cost, though.

OK, stupid question here. How does one go about buying said joysticks? Are
they carried by any ofthe electronics distributors? It seemed from the
website they are more aimed at manufacturors. Can a mere mortal buy one or
2? If a bunch of us went in on an order, would that help the price?


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Dave Trenkel : improv@...
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>From: improv@...
>Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
>To: motm@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [motm] Joystick ideas
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:08:46 -0800
>
> >Hey, if we could decide on a Joystick company and model 
>(www.chproducts.com
> >looks great), then we could get panels silkscreened in the next run for a
> >custom control console..  although I guess we don't want to jump the gun 
>and
> >do all of this before we hear what Paul had on his mind for this module.
> >Yeah check out ch products' website under industrial products.  
>Joysticks,
> >switch sticks, trackballs, button strips, all kinds of cool stuff. 
>joysticks
> >with buttons on top for that real "VideoGame" feel.
>
>The CHProducts stuff looks highly cool, especially the 3-way + button. Hate
>to think what that would cost, though.
>
>OK, stupid question here. How does one go about buying said joysticks? Are
>they carried by any ofthe electronics distributors? It seemed from the
>website they are more aimed at manufacturors. Can a mere mortal buy one or
>2? If a bunch of us went in on an order, would that help the price?
>
>
>____________________________________________
>Dave Trenkel : improv@...
>Minus Web Site: http://listen.to/minusmusic
>Minus MP3's: http://www.mp3.com/-minus-
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>
>Hi Barry here, bet my question is sillier than yours! I don't have the 
>faintest idea of how to wire up the joystick once I got it! One of the 
>reasons I started buying MOTM was so I could learn this stuff. I would 
>desperately love to have a joystick controller but I'm starting to think it 
>might be beyond my ability. I still haven't put together my first kit 
>yet(My wife is making me wait till Christmas to get it!)However I am very 
>good at following instructions, so I shouldn't have too much trouble.
Which brings me to my question: once I have the joystick, how do I wire it 
up? Please someone help!

Barry S.
P.S. the joystick with three axis sounds very cool, but it is probably 
freakishly expensive!

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