[sdiy] looking for a joystick

[Tom Bugs]

Hi Florian,

Having now tested the TBM joystick - good news - it works nicely like this.

The mechanism is somewhat similar to the Alps joystick, but more refined 
- two hemispherical paths, whereas the Alp one seems to have one linear 
and one hemisphere + is overall much more compact.

You can move the paddle along the bottom of one axis without raising the 
output voltage/resistance - the good thing is that doesn't mean there's 
a dead-spot of travel if, for example, the paddle is in a central 
position - I checked that too and change occurs as soon as it leaves the 
bottom position.

I'm noting that I'll need to leave a relatively larger panel hole for 
the paddle movement compared with the Alps. I think the paddle moves to 
a wider angle than than for the alps - perhaps 90degree side-to-side 
compared with 60 for the Alps (guessing that)

Best! Tom

On 05/04/2016 09:44, Florian Anwander wrote:
> Hello
>
> Am 05.04.2016 um 10:28 schrieb Tom Bugs:
>> I made this suggestion a few months back for a similar query::::
>> http://www.tbm-japan.com/english/product/07joy.html
> To my experience all the joysticks built like these have one problem: 
> you cannot reach a postion "max(X), max(Y)", because the top mask 
> (right word?) is circular shaped. I'd always look for a joystick, 
> where the mask is a square.
>
> Florian
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