Who here sells GOOD joystick interface for cheep?

[adam_jorgensen]

I am looking for a joystick interface cord for my JR XF421 radio. Who here has one for sale for not too expensive, but is not a cheap piece of crap like my existing printer port interface? I want one because I heard they don't pick up any noise or interference in the cord. Is this true? Are there any kind of probelms I should know before I get one?

[adam_jorgensen]

Has anybody ever had a problem with jitter or tweaking movments of the controls in the fms models with their joystick interface? I want to make sure that the joystick interface I want is FREE of anykind of jitter.

[cwcarso]

Did you ever find out if the JoyStick Interface is "better" than the Printer Port one?

I also am not able to use FMS because the printer interface can not be calibrated because of all the noise--I guess generated by my laptop --- The bars are jumping all over the place --- turned off all I/O and cards -- still getting the problem

[Eric Brouwer]

Have a look on my . There are a few links to ready-made interfaces and vendors. It all depends where you stay.

With the gameport interface, stability depends on the speed of the motherboard, as well as the construction of your gameport itself. The gameport uses four one-shot timers, which are polled in software. As these on-shots are not constructed of the best components, you might find that even with no stick movements, there might be small movements visible.

This does not cause any problems flying FMS, as these movements are normally very small. In fact, this is even an advantage, as in real flight, planes tend to change attitude without the flyer moving his sticks. This is due to air movements that will never be the same in your flight path.

[Mike Roberts]

Hi

I have a USB R/C Joystick interface that makes a transmitter appear as a 4 axis and up to 4 button joystick. I used a separate chip using similar code to the PIC serial interface so the transmitter data collection would not be interfered with by the PC/USB polling. So the response is as smoooth as the PIC version - and it can be used for other programs. Please take a look at me website.

Mike

[overhead]

Hi.
I have just completed a transmitter to joystick adapter. It uses a PIC 12F629 and two dual digital pot chips. I used all surface mount parts and was able to fit it in a DSUB15 shell. It is very compact. It works very well, without any jitter at all. It also uses the full 8bit range. This one gives the 4 joysticks and 2 fire buttons. I also have one in the works to provide 4 fire buttons.
Contact me at dkoroluk@mts.net if interested.
Dennis