Afternoon adventurers. As part of my project to build an arcade case for Laser Defender game, this weekend with my good friend Matt G, he has been instructing me in the ways of the metal worker.
To test out the analog axis of my Teensy USB ga
mepad, I needed some potentiometers, which needed finishing with same handles. I found some old kitchen drawer handles and put them to work on Matt’s lathe.
Input Device #1 : Thottle control
A 10K slide pot with kitchen drawer handle
This works great as a throttle control in “Simple Planes”, next step is to build a housing for it, or maybe integrate it into a custom keyboard project.
Input Device #2: Turny handle thing
Yeah I dunno what this is really for, but its a turny handle thing. Im sure I’ll want a turny handle thing at some point.
Arcade stick
Actually all of the lathing was really for helping make some metal adapters for mounting rumble pack motors to my XINPUT arcade sticks, which look a bit like this. These are 2 separate parts “smushed” together (technical term).
When mounted on the stick, look a bit like this (rumble motor up underneath).
That’s it for now. Hoping to get my circuit boards next week!