Now featuring:
A keyboard for easier text input.
A footplate for more comfortable seating position.
A freshly cleaned & re-soldered HOTAS One with additional button remapping for more efficient combat.
Existing features include:
32” HDMI TV
1tb Xbox One
Ikea armchair (recovered & recushioned)
Thrustmaster HOTAS One
2010 MacBook on small coffe table for forums/3rd party sites
Cat bed underneath coffe table for copilots
20” TV & Xbox One S for YouTube/DVDs
iPhone 6 Plus for 4G WiFi
My ongoing project to build a pilots chair with basically ZERO budget has just received 2 new additions and a bit of hardware TLC.
The keyboard has been making a world of difference to using text boxes in ED as on the Xbox version it uses the proprietary Xbox text input which is an absolute pain to navigate with a HOTAS and only slightly better with a control pad.
I just wish I could use it for key binds too...
And the addition of the footplate (which I harvested from plank I used to mount my HOTAS on in v1) might seem strange to some, but it makes the seating position much more comfortable and stops me slouching down in the chair.
It also gives me somewhere to put my stupid size 11 feet and keeps the HOTAS cable and the USB port on the side of my Xbox protected.
And finally after much use & abuse the Yaw axis on my HOTAS finally died.
A quick google search led me to deduce that there are basically none available in the UK (cheers brexit) unless you want to buy a second hand one off eBay for an extortionate amount and getting a replacement would be almost impossible.
So instead I decided to say b******s to the warranty, google searched a few DIY guides and cracked it open.
My word it's cheaply built and poorly soldered in there and there's trapped wires & hot glue everywhere!
A careful bit of tinkering and I soon discovered one of the flimsy little wires connected to the Yaw pot had snapped away from its connector.
After I re-soldered it (and the other two wires just to be safe) I gave the pot a little squirt of contact cleaner and a little twist to make sure it did its job.
Then after it dried I used a bit of LX tape to minimise the wires getting trapped and flexing too much and put it all back together again.
While I was at it I thought I'd crack open the base of the joystick and give the other two pots the same treatment as the Pitch Axis was getting a bit twitchy too.
There's still a bit of left hand drift in the Yaw axis, so I still have to set deadzones, but all the twitching has gone as well as the twitching that had begun to develop in the Pitch axis.
Cobbling together all these bits and pieces almost makes it feel like I'm building my own ship sometimes, especially when I'm having to perform actual maintenance and rewire vital parts.
The low-tek adventures of a Bounty Hunter and his Cats continue...
A keyboard for easier text input.
A footplate for more comfortable seating position.
A freshly cleaned & re-soldered HOTAS One with additional button remapping for more efficient combat.
Existing features include:
32” HDMI TV
1tb Xbox One
Ikea armchair (recovered & recushioned)
Thrustmaster HOTAS One
2010 MacBook on small coffe table for forums/3rd party sites
Cat bed underneath coffe table for copilots
20” TV & Xbox One S for YouTube/DVDs
iPhone 6 Plus for 4G WiFi
My ongoing project to build a pilots chair with basically ZERO budget has just received 2 new additions and a bit of hardware TLC.
The keyboard has been making a world of difference to using text boxes in ED as on the Xbox version it uses the proprietary Xbox text input which is an absolute pain to navigate with a HOTAS and only slightly better with a control pad.
I just wish I could use it for key binds too...
And the addition of the footplate (which I harvested from plank I used to mount my HOTAS on in v1) might seem strange to some, but it makes the seating position much more comfortable and stops me slouching down in the chair.
It also gives me somewhere to put my stupid size 11 feet and keeps the HOTAS cable and the USB port on the side of my Xbox protected.
And finally after much use & abuse the Yaw axis on my HOTAS finally died.
A quick google search led me to deduce that there are basically none available in the UK (cheers brexit) unless you want to buy a second hand one off eBay for an extortionate amount and getting a replacement would be almost impossible.
So instead I decided to say b******s to the warranty, google searched a few DIY guides and cracked it open.
My word it's cheaply built and poorly soldered in there and there's trapped wires & hot glue everywhere!
A careful bit of tinkering and I soon discovered one of the flimsy little wires connected to the Yaw pot had snapped away from its connector.
After I re-soldered it (and the other two wires just to be safe) I gave the pot a little squirt of contact cleaner and a little twist to make sure it did its job.
Then after it dried I used a bit of LX tape to minimise the wires getting trapped and flexing too much and put it all back together again.
While I was at it I thought I'd crack open the base of the joystick and give the other two pots the same treatment as the Pitch Axis was getting a bit twitchy too.
There's still a bit of left hand drift in the Yaw axis, so I still have to set deadzones, but all the twitching has gone as well as the twitching that had begun to develop in the Pitch axis.
Cobbling together all these bits and pieces almost makes it feel like I'm building my own ship sometimes, especially when I'm having to perform actual maintenance and rewire vital parts.
The low-tek adventures of a Bounty Hunter and his Cats continue...
