I love my CH Fighterstick (and CH Pro Throttle / CH Rudder pedals) but I would like to have a better feel in the pitch/yaw axes, getting rid of the center "clunk", as well as add a short extension for center mounting my stick in my cockpit.

My idea is to 3d print a U joint, add hall effects sensors in the manner shown in this video:

https://youtu.be/SgqflcHBTwc

And then mount my original grip to that.

I have a degree in mechanical engineering so I'm comfortable with the construction part of this plan but I have no background or experience in electronics so that part is where I really need help.

I am assuming I could not connect the pitch/yaw hall effects sensor axes directly to the CH controller so:

1 - Is there a means of using some sort of "adaptor" between the hall effects outputs and the factory CH controller? IE plug the hall effects outputs into some electronic device that translates those outputs into an output that CH understands. This way my sims (primarily DCS/IL2) still display as CH controllers.

2 - Or connect the hall effects axes to a separate Arduino controller running MMJoy (or something similar) while retaining the buttons/hat switches etc. still being run through the original CH controller. Doing this I don't know what DCS/IL2 would do with those two different inputs.

3 - Or would I be better off to just ditch the CH electronics entirely and wire everything through an Arduino running MMJoy? Here DCS/IL2 would see CH Throttle/Rudder and however MMjoy appears in game.

Thanks in advance!