The competition

There are a few commercial platforms available and quite a lot of homemade ones so clearly the interest is there. [iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/zNUBZfrOXUc”] [iframe width=”640″...

Considering the problem.

So I knew that in order to come up with something successful it would need to achieve a few goals. Affordability: it needed to use cheap components, not only for prototyping it but so it wouldn’t cost a fortune. Small to ship : If I wanted to send it around the...

Beginning the project

I originally started off designing a six degrees of freedom joystick for a few upcoming space games : Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen since there weren’t any available. I ended up creating something that worked and interfaced fine in windows but I still...