In article m,
CryptWolf wrote:
I've been looking at making a muti-lever throttle
system but I've been unable to find adequate
electronics and software drivers to make them
work right. I know of several USB gameport adapter
schemes, but none actually work right.

The easy thing to do would be to buy as many $10 USB joysticks as it
takes to get enough channels and cannibalize them (you don't even need
to use their pots as long as you use pots with the same characteristics).
Use an unpowered USB hub if you want to clean up the cabling. Then you've
got more work to configure it, but you only have to do that once.

Heck, come to think of it, there MUST be some A/D-converter-to-HID-on-USB
chips out there. http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm looks like a good lead.
No endorsements of Microchip's USB PIC offering, but there is actual
firmware even for a HID device based on the Cypress CY63000. Check out
cypress.com's developer kits under "USB low-speed peripherals".

http://www.cypress.com/cfuploads/sup...gn%20Notes.pdf

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Ben Jackson

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