Posted by Xiaou2 on 6, 2001 at 10:48 PM:
In Reply to: After one game of star wars, I'm hooked, need some help about the yoke posted by Dudah on 6, 2001 at 9:49 PM:
Yup - it uses pot's... and you can easily hack a joystick for them. Also, mame accepts joy input.
As for the assembly, I made mine out of wood by Routing it like a nutshell. Made buttons by Dowels with a popsicle stick glued to the back so they didnt slide out. Trigger made by shapeing a piece of wood - then drilling a mini hole for a pivot. Used a metal pin to keep in in place.
You can try the twisty grip pvc method...although I found the design too eye-displeasing :) Also, the round thick grips were a bit odd. The worst though, was the horrible buttons that were used. Unfortunately, they arnt cheap... and tring to house a removable button on pvc is quite tricky.
As for metal... May be the best? Unfortunately, I have no access to such tooling, so I cant offer any advice there.
Take a look at the pics of the StarWars Yoke, and the Tron stick on my page. They both employ
the same methods of construction.
www.homestead.com/xiaou2/xiaou2s.html
If anyone would like any more info on this, I may be able to write up more details, and more pic's...
Sincerely,
Xiaou2
:)