The joy of stix
Added 2024-10-27 19:51:32 +0000 UTCA very non-electronic teardown of a classic arcade style joystick assembly. These could have many other uses including machine position control.
The construction is very simple and evolved, and they are so mass produced that you can buy these for $5 shipped with a wide range of knob shapes and colours including pink and purple.
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Love me a good knob
Pierre
2024-11-01 13:58:34 +0000 UTCI made an arcade joystick conversion for an old Xbox360 (wired) pad using an arcade stick and arcade buttons, opened the pad, and soldered wires onto the handy copper pads for the rubber+ferrite style keys for the main buttons and the dpad. You can get clones of the xbox360 gamepad these days. Some listings come with the carriage bolts that you can see plenty of mounting posiitons for on the base-plate.
H_D
2024-10-29 16:00:35 +0000 UTCNice Clive I think this will make a great controller for my atari 2600 !
Richard Lackie
2024-10-29 04:57:54 +0000 UTCThe original did not have a PCB with direct soldering or spade connectors to the cable. They did release a PCB version which where not reliable! So machines got retrofited if possible due to dry joint issues due to stress from use! The originals was a lot heavier compared to the copies that was supplied as replacement parts.
N. Shaun Tremayne
2024-10-28 11:43:07 +0000 UTCI used an original with my Commodore computers out of an Arcade machine.
N. Shaun Tremayne
2024-10-28 11:38:23 +0000 UTCI destroyed my Dragon 32 not long after I got it by forgetting to power off before changing cartridges. RIP. :(
Mark Gray
2024-10-28 08:18:05 +0000 UTCI wonder if it's the same Sanwa that makes the radio control systems for model cars, planes etc...
Rup (FastAsFunk)
2024-10-28 07:12:51 +0000 UTCI brought several of these to use with my Dragon 32. They work ok. The joysticks on the Dragon came in 2 flavours, either the switched type or the potentiometer type. The ideal type depended very much on the game being played, but I didn't know that at the time.
Dennis
2024-10-27 23:42:03 +0000 UTC
