Joystick Throttle Combo
Home brew joystick throttle combo designed with a few features that off-the-shelf units were missing (or were un-affordable).
Throttle and joy combo CAD design.
Close up of the joystick CAD design. Lightweight mechanical frame with magnets and hall effects for tracking the roll/pitch, with a vertical mount to give yaw input.
More mechanism detail, shows the spring back and encoder mount positions.
Schematic for the throttle unit - interfacing sliding potentiometers for split throttle, as well as multiple buttons and LEDs to control.
First pass design for the throttle unit PCB. Largely a breakout for the ESP32 with some additional ICs and power management.
Twin throttle design with many buttons / switches / leds for control and feedback.
Features
Throttle
- Dual split (lock-able) with a range of buttons / switches / leds
- High tolerance sliding bearings for smooth operation
- Connection to interface unit or bluetooth to PC.
Joystick
- Roll / pitch measured with high end magnetic hall effect arrangement with high quality bearings on those axes
- Springs on axes for centering return
- Yaw axes embedded on joy mount so the top joystick can be removed and reconfigured (shape, buttons etc)
- Connection to interface unit or bluetooth to PC.
Interface Unit
- This planned unit intended as a middleman between all PC and all the different units (throttle, joy, wheel etc).
- Any of the other units should auto detect and configure appropriate HID messaging for the high speed interface to PC.