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Re: Power Functions remote control Thumbstick - new challenge
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lugnet.technic
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Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:09:38 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jason J Railton wrote:
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<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=301922
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Okay, thanks for the recommendations everyone. But having done this, I now
have a new challenge (besides doing a better one of these, anyway).
Can you make a mechanical tank controller thumbstick? It should take in
up/down/left/right (+diagonal) motion like this one, but translate it into
tank drive commands, i.e. forward/back operations on the left and right
controls respectively.
Frankly, it’s got me stumped. It’s the diagonals that make it really hard.
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OK, here is an attempted solution to the “new challenge”, i.e. translating
joystick movement to tank controls. It works, but it’s a little awkward to use
(pushing the joystick sideways requires quite a lot of force). I’m sure Jason
(or someone) can come up with a more elegant implementation...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/aeh/Controls/tank1.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/aeh/Controls/tank2.jpg
I would really like a joystick with THREE degrees of freedom, controlling three
separate power functions switches - two controlled by moving back/forward and
left/right, and the third by ROTATING the joystick on its own axis. Any ideas
how to do this?
cheers, Alexander
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