[sdiy] looking for a joystick

[Jason Proctor]

well the joysticks arrived from China. they seem mostly fine, except
despite having the exact same part number as the Doepfer one, they are
sprung-return. this is a little annoying as they are no use to me unless i
can disable it somehow. i will attempt to sort it RSN...


On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Tom Bugs <admin at bugbrand.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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