Yay Toronto! Yes, local pick-up, why not? Let me know before you order and I'll make a special non-shipping SKU for you.

It's on the list. Have to finish the pedals and collective first though.

Yes, pedals are almost ready to be released. We redesigned them to make them cheaper to produce, while still maintaining a very close likeness to the originals. Will be posting some images in the next few weeks.

In theory that shouldn't be too difficult. If someone can provide a pin-out diagram, and details of the correct connector, it seems do-able. If anybody else wants this please PM or email me and we'll try and sort it out.

The sensors are Allegro Hall Effect sensors, feeding analog data into a 12-bit analog to digital converter. So, you'll end up with 4096 steps, or values, per axis. Deflection on the stick is 15 degrees pitch and bank, so that's something like 136 discreet steps per degree of stick travel. The electronics aren't 100% locked down yet though, and the circuit and firmware is still being improved.

Grip looks great and new force feedback in future will make me happy

Any plans to put 1 more hat to grip, second hat would be nice, even if it means to leave one button off.



But your project looks too great to be true, best thing is that it is TRUE

-haukka81

Looks great! Put me down as a +1 for red buttons though

Very nice grip. Put me down for all black buttons and trigger.

Jm 1941

Warthog, Cougar, F-22 PRO grips use inside a "multiplexer" chip (8 bits) to reduce wires (5) between controller circuit and handle.

This chip use the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) protocol.
So to be compatible with Warthog and "cousins" grips like people
want your USB controller need handle this protocol.

A example of USB controller able to do this is Teensy 2.0 prototype board.

People asking for Force Feedback seem don't know that his protocol involve million dolar patents. Perhaps not viable for low volume production...

Sokol1

Hi Sokol,
Thanks very much for the info. That would seem to complicate matters somewhat. Will pass this along to the electronics people and see what they can do.

Wow, I somehow missed this topic, but this looks great, and I've been hoping to find a floor mounted stick which wouldn't cost me $2000.
Would the shipping to Australia also be around $100? If yes, I think I might very well pre-order!

Hi,
Yes shipping would be just over $100USD.

Ok thanks, that sounds really great!
Is it easy to disassemble and pack away? I might be moving interstate in early 2014, so I'd need to pack the stick during the move. Apart from that aspect, I'm really keen on getting this stick!

Thanks for the feedback on the delivery and pedals question.
I almost bought a condo across the street from you so it was easy to find.

I have signed up but when does the pre-order page become available to actually pre-order?

I see "sold-out" on your webpage for the stick.

Did I miss my chance to be an early adopter and save a little money in the process?

S!

The stick tube is held in the gimbal by 2 bolts, so once you remove them, and unplug the wires from the grip, the stick and grip come apart, leaving you with just the base unit and the stick+grip. If you keep the box it comes to you in, you should be ok

Did the pre order sell out already? I was just about to pre order it and just wanted to clarify a couple of details, but the webpage is indeed displaying "sold out" on the pre order page...

Hi, The stick was available to pre-order, but as of yesterday all the pre-order units have been sold. Now we are focusing on fulfilling those orders, and once they are all shipped we will begin taking orders again, at the full price.

Wow! Good news for you that there was enough interest to sell out the pre-order units Bad news for those of us prevaricating
At the pre-order price, I would have talked myself into purchasing. For the full price, I probably can't. My loss for procrastinating.
Sincere wishes for your success ! <S>

Good news for you, but you could have warned us that only few units were remaining... I took the time to ask a few questions because I didn't know there was a limited amount of sticks to pre order, but I had pretty much set my mind on it and would have ordered ASAP if I would have known that...

Hi guys,
Sorry for the disappointment and frustration...We were sort of caught off guard as well. Yes, it is great that we sold them all, but it's bad because we did say the pre-order period would last until January...So we've been discussing what we should do.

What we can do is extend the pre-order period for another 2 weeks. I'll update the order page to reflect that date. The trade off will be that these "extended" pre-order units might not ship until February, or possibly later (it will depend on the factory that does the sheet metal for us). You would still be able to cancel your order and get a full refund if you got tired of waiting however.

So, you can pre-order up to Dec 1, but after that it'll be full price.

Hope that'll work.
Sorry again for any upset.