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#3140872 - 11/19/10 06:52 PM Re: A Good Joystick to Hack? [Re: HitchHikingFlatlander]
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LOL all good we can always use a refresher! If they're is one thing I found from these projects it's that anyone can do it. I had no experience or skills going into my projects and I didn't fry anything, burn the house down and ended up with working projects. I made multiple errors wiring things up from lack of knowledge or exp. I just re-wired until things were right. In at least the case of the Logitech Wingman project I'd just leave the board plugged in to the PC and move wires around until I figured out what input I was working with. The diagrams a few of the guys posted in here helped greatly in the process. In any case anyone can do this stuff.
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#3146079 - 11/28/10 07:55 PM Re: A Good Joystick to Hack? [Re: HitchHikingFlatlander]
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Slight update!

I fried the board on my Saitek Pro flight pedals some time ago (inserted wrong USB hub pwr adapter lol). So I hooked up the pots on the rudder pedals to the Logitech Wingman pot leads to give me rudder and toe brakes. It's not great but it works. I just drilled a hole thru the pedal casing and used cat 5 for the wiring. I didn't take any pics during the process but I'm happy I finally used the Logitech pots even if I'm not happy about frying the pedal's electronics!

I hoping to start on some panels and possibly a dash for A10C but I'm low on funds and have a newborn ATM! I do have a 128 XKeys input device now where is that free time?


Edited by HitchHikingFlatlander (11/28/10 07:55 PM)
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