DRA-TARI Joystick
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:33 pm
Hello everyone, as a kid I always prefered the 'analogue' D32 Joysticks to 'digital' ones but last year I tried to find a 'digital' one that used to be available for the D32.
Before I got one I decided to get out my hammer and adapt an original D32 to 'digital'.
If the pictures have attached to this message you'll see I covered the stick and workings with the rubber piece from an Atari 2600 joystick hence the name DRA-TARI.
I left the pots in to give a value for when the stick is centred and simply used 4 switches wired up to the pot conections to simulate the stick being pushed all the way in each direction etc. The switches are triggered by the stick moving of course.
Hope it gives you a chuckle.
Mike.
Before I got one I decided to get out my hammer and adapt an original D32 to 'digital'.
If the pictures have attached to this message you'll see I covered the stick and workings with the rubber piece from an Atari 2600 joystick hence the name DRA-TARI.
I left the pots in to give a value for when the stick is centred and simply used 4 switches wired up to the pot conections to simulate the stick being pushed all the way in each direction etc. The switches are triggered by the stick moving of course.
Hope it gives you a chuckle.
Mike.