Pictures of Wheel 3.0:
It works! I'm somewhat surprised! My projects are never this easy. Especially considering I'm an electronics idiot.
I'm also surprised at how economical this little project was considering I started with next to nothing:
Wheel: $12 USD
Potentiometer: $12 USD (for two)
Leo Bodnar controller: $40 USD
Jumper wires: $7.00
Soldering Iron, etc.: $17 USD
Screws $7.00
My soldering certainly isn't pretty but it works. The box was built out of some 3mm chipboard and plastic I had laying around. I also had a spare usb printer cable in my computer equipment bits box.
The Leo Bodnar controller is recognized by both my Linux system and FGFS. But it's not quite configured as I'd like. Namely, there's a large dead zone in the center. Any suggestions as to a Linux application to configure joysticks?
I've installed jstest-gtk. Using that I can configure the joystick so that the dead zone disappears but the setting doesn't persist when disconnecting the usb cable. (I presume a restart will also reset the joystick configuration.) Now if I could just save the configuration I'd be a happy sailor!
--jeff
We were set in our ways. We believed in a good God, a bad Devil and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that the same good God did not intend man should ever fly.
--Bill Tate (Crouch, The Bishop's Boys)