Hello folks! Does anybody know a manufactorer of or hear about a project for an optical or otherwise contactless joystick? I mean a joystick with no more mechanical components inside than the hand lever itself.
OK! OK! we heard you the first time. Dunno 'bout optical, but I think "force sensing" joysticks - as the name suggests - work by sensing force rather than movement? Have a look at Daco Scientific: http://www.daco.co.uk/index.htm Or, if you wanted to roll your own, maybe look at the Gill Instruments page at Ixthus Instrumentation: http://www.chamois.net/ixthus/gill.htm (they suggest joysticks as an application) You can say I sent you! ;-)
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