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<DIV style="CLEAR: both"><FONT size=3>That looks like a slick little controller. You will get much better results wilth that than with opening a joystick.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both"><FONT size=3>For those of you who have used this controller, does it stay calibrated like an EPIC does?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both"><FONT size=3>Justin</FONT></DIV></H1>
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<DIV class=plainMail>At 04:08 a.m. 5/12/2008, you wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > The only issue now is one of resolution... hmm... I need some cunning<BR>> > rather than time-consuming engineering.<BR>> ><BR>><BR>>Roy, the only way you're going to increase the resolution is to increase<BR>>the sample size. I suspect that the logitech stick uses a three wire pot,<BR>>in which case it's configured as a voltage divider. Most off the shelf<BR>>joystick use a 10 bit sample rate which will give you a resolution of 0 to<BR>>1024. This is of course a huge improvement over the old style "analog"<BR>>joysticks that PCs used to use - those were 8 bit samples. (0..255).<BR>><BR>>If you want to go to a 12 bit sample size, you can get one of Leo Bodnar's<BR>>BU0836A controllers. They provide for 8 axes and 32 button inputs and the<BR>>sample range is 0..4096. This should be plenty for what
you're trying to<BR>>do. The good thing is that he's local to you and the device is listed as<BR>>(insert funny pound sign here)24.<BR>><BR>>Here's a link to the '386A: <A href="http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836A/" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836A/</FONT></A></DIV></DIV></td></tr></table><br>