Comment by Hans Cappelle on July 17, 2012 at 1:06am

Nice project. Is there a reason most of these joystick/controller mods are done for quads? 

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on July 17, 2012 at 5:51am

I think it's largely because quads have brought a whole bunch of "young", hacker-ish people into the field, who are open to trying new things, and have the skills to do so.  Bring this contraption to your local AMA-sanctioned club, and the old guys will be ranting about it being unsafe for several days non-stop.

However, one problem I see with this is simply that the throttle stick self-centers.  Not sure how you use that properly.

Comment by Hans Cappelle on July 20, 2012 at 2:35am

You're probably right about the bunch of young, hacker-ish people :).

Throttle is indeed an issue on some controller alternatives. Not sure if it's any good idea but that could be solved by software also I think. If the software remembers the highest (for everything above center) and lowest (for everything below center) stick position than you could control throttle that way. You won't be able to use center stick position as throttle input anymore though. Probably needs some getting used to also.

Comment by msev on July 28, 2012 at 10:28am

Btw could such a transmitter with added three-way switches be adapted for use with flight mode switching in Arduplane? Would you help me out if I were to attempt to make such a transmitter?

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