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Subject: Re: Joystick Ponderings

From: "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@...>
Date: 2000-02-15

Good points Dave. Mine is the return to center type as you have noticed.
I am kind of thinking the non-centering type might not work so hot on a
horizontal panel. I guess it would if the tension was adjusted right. I'm
not sure how useful mine will be. However, I have the parts and the desire
to learn, so I guess I will build it and then see if:

1 - I can make it work
2 - If I will ever actually use it.

I have several ideas for # 2.

LH

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From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>

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