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Subject: RE: Joystick Ponderings

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
Date: 2000-02-14

One other joystick decision you have to make:

Do you want one that is self centering, or not? I have one that stays where
you put it, which is very useful for lots of things like quad spatial
panning, etc. A spring loaded return to center type would be an annoyance in
this application.

Probably I'd want one of each type. The good thing about the non-centering
type is that you really don't need the 2 extra pots for offset, since you
don't care about return to center.

Moe

>
> From: "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@...>
>
> Thanks for the informational links. It was interesting to see what others
> are doing. Mine will be similar to the AS model rs220. Only I
> will have 4
> adjustments: the gain (for X and Y) as they have and an offset control to
> set the initial voltage (for X and Y). I will put my adjustment
> pots above
> the joystick. Instead of only two outs, I will have four. I say one guy
> used a switch to select polarity. I thought about that and then decided
> that both positive and negative outputs at the same time would be much
> better.
>
>