So, this is my most used joystick 🙂
Body built by a carpenter. Main stick wrecked from an arcade machine (good old eighties)
Buttons are new from China.
Cable is from one of my old unserviceable joystick, but you can use 9 pin DSUB plug. :
I used plexi as lower-cover, and i was not too precise as you can see 🙂
October 30, 2016 at 11:22 am
Grea job!
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October 30, 2016 at 12:57 pm
Thank you 🙂
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November 13, 2016 at 9:10 am
Any tips how to paint it?
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January 26, 2017 at 8:35 am
Very nice mate! Keep up the good work. 🙂
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January 26, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Thank you 🙂 we have new flat, i have new work, so there was no time for blogging 😦 but i will continue
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January 27, 2017 at 11:00 pm
Congratulations on the new flat! 🙂 Awesome!
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January 10, 2018 at 6:02 pm
I made a very simple joystick way back in the eighties.
Here are the innards:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/LEWjsDfvk0XBEvst1
Her is the thingy itself
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DqBAI2WFuEPk4ZKA2
Obviously these pics I made now with a design software which haven’t existed in 1987. But the joy did existed and it was optimal for fight games (Last Ninja etc) like now a gamepad. I could use it for platform and shooter games too.
The military grade microswitches and the simple and overly robust mechanics lasted beyond the whole C64 era.
OK, it made some blisters on my thumbs after some hours of abuse…
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January 10, 2018 at 6:08 pm
And yes, in case of some interest I share the production drawings as well.
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