Building home made Joystick

Greatings All,

I hope I am at the right place to post about finding information on how to
build my own racing wheel joystick. I have found info on the net, but still
have some questions about some ideas that I have about it.

If I am not in the right place, please forgive this, and maybe point me in
the right place

Thank you in advance,
Mike

"test" wrote in message ...
Greatings All,

I hope I am at the right place to post about finding information on how to
build my own racing wheel joystick. I have found info on the net, but still
have some questions about some ideas that I have about it.

If I am not in the right place, please forgive this, and maybe point me in
the right place

Thank you in advance,
Mike

Fire away.
I might not know much, but it would be more fun than listening to
people look for drivers, have bad power supplies, etc.

Aaron

I'll second that for sure )

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"test" wrote in message ...
Greatings All,

I hope I am at the right place to post about finding information on how to
build my own racing wheel joystick. I have found info on the net, but still
have some questions about some ideas that I have about it.

If I am not in the right place, please forgive this, and maybe point me in
the right place

Thank you in advance,
Mike

Fire away.
I might not know much, but it would be more fun than listening to
people look for drivers, have bad power supplies, etc.

Aaron

I used to come across a web site that showed a way to build a driving
wheel for playing PC racing games. It used bungee cords to provide the
resistance, and many wooden part for the console. I vaguely recall its
name is like Woody Wheel, Welly Wheel, W... Wheel, ... etc. I don't
recall the exact name, and I cannot find it any more (I just tried).

Anyway, that was more than 5 years ago. I don't know if his method is
still relevant or not ... I am sure it didn't have force-feedback in
his wheel.

Hope you can find it somewhere.

Jay Chan

I have found the following links. But they are not the one that I saw 5 years ago:

http://home.student.uu.se/j/jojo3301.../Wheel/col.htm
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~heinanen/wheel.html

You may be able to locate it using these key words:
wheel
potentiometer
pot
bungie cord

Hope this helps.

Jay Chan

Ok, I will try to be as clear as possible And Thank you for your answer.

I have everything I need to Build the wheel, and components (linear trim
pots and wires and diagrams) But what I would like to add keyboard keys used
with buttons that I would put with the joystick. For example, I broke apart
a keyboard, and took the electronic part out, and would use the chipset with
wired soldered to the pinouts. I hope things are clearer then I think.
*smile* The goal of all this is to add "unlimited" programable buttons to
any game that support keyboard mapping. Since just about every game does
that, I would just need to assigne the buttons to the functions I need.

Let's say I add a shifter to my nascar racing. Gear 1-2-3-4 and R, would
each have a button relayed to an assigned pinout of the keyboard
circuit.that would send a key to the game. Ie: Gear 1 would be soldered to
the letter A, 2 to letter S, and so on.

The part that I am getting trouble, is figuring out easily what pinout
equals to what letter. And if someone has used someway or idea to go around
that. Would be easier doing it with USB, but I dont know how to use that
aside from unbuilding a working usb device and modifying it as I can

Next part, I think it would be rather in electronics, as it would be to
actually make my own chip to assigne and program letters to pinouts.

Hopefully, this got my idea a bit clear,
Thank you again for answering, I really appreciate the time.
Mike

Thank you for the web sites! They help me out to find more ideas on the
building and making the steering part. The last web site has very nice wood
ones!!!


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I have found the following links. But they are not the one that I saw 5
years ago:

http://home.student.uu.se/j/jojo3301.../Wheel/col.htm
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~heinanen/wheel.html

You may be able to locate it using these key words:
wheel
potentiometer
pot
bungie cord

Hope this helps.

Jay Chan