Homemade Throttle

[mbailey]

Ha ha, BaldEagl's way smarter than me!

  Would you like me to have it pop you out of your chair with your hair on fire when you get shot down?

After looking at that throttle, there is no doubt in my mind that you could make that happen LOL   

Throttle is just awesome sir

[Ghosth]

That is a very nice piece of work sir!

[MickDono]

Would you like me to have it pop you out of your chair with your hair on fire when you get shot down?

hahaha

[zack1234]

Ho! Ho!

[Vinkman]

Very clever. I particularly like the on off switch and WEP switches at the end stops. Hope the RPM governor turns out as nice. 

[DeltaFox]

Nice job.

You a design engineer or draftsman?  If not, you might want to think about it.

[633DH98]

Give nrshida a dremel tool and he'll rule the world. 


 

[Nutzoid]

I wonder. Would you be interested in making these for sell? I think I would buy one. Excellent job! 

[BoilerDown]

That's badass.

It uses a Leo Bodnar 12-bit controller (http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836A/). This just gives you more precision, same as with many digital cameras nowadays. Without wanting to bore anyone to death, most commercial controllers are currently 8 bit, which looks like this: 11111111 which is binary for 255, thus you can store any number between o and 255, hence 256 steps. One third throttle would be for 01010101 for example (decimal 85).

With a 12 bit controller you have 12 bits, so there is more space available: 00001111 11111111 or binary 4095, thus a much higher resolution. AH interprets the throttle position between two fixed values, but you can make a much finer adjustments between these two points. Also future-proofs the unit somewhat I hope.

That right there makes it more advanced than 98% of what's on the market right now.  The joystick industry has been stuck in the 8bit world for about 20 years too long imo.

[nrshida]

It's funny you say that DeltaFox, I am actually returning to University this year as a mature student to study Industrial Design Engineering.

I had considered making a production prototype, since a few friends also asked, especially for a dual throttle version. I roughly sketched a modular design (thus 1 to 4 throttles bodies which would interlock), but I would have to make a pre-production prototype, and then a pattern and have some bodies cast from Aluminium and then have them machined by a machine shop etc. I am a little short on tools and facilities at the moment, so it's no small undertaking!

I did begin to make a custom joystick handle too, with some interesting features, but I'm just a little busy right now with language courses so I've had to shelve my fabrication projects for the time being.

Perhaps when they let me at the Bridgeport machines at Uni, I will be able to do more!

Thank you for all the kind comments, hopefully I've chosen a suitable career path this time around.

[zack1234]

What about mature cheddar?

[nrshida]

I've heard it's difficult to machine Zack!

[ebfd11]

Looks awesome, I wish I were that mechanically inclined and smart enuf to do something like that.

The most intense thing I built was my comp but of course that is all plug and play.

But all I can say is WOW.

[Ghosth]

If that did 2 engines (two levers) I'd consider buying one.

I'd much prefer a full 4 quadrant, and I hadn't ever considered the engine off/on wep end of travel micro switch's. That is some very nice work you've done.

[Dragon]

I like the new math

1 hard drive + 2 Lego's = 1 sweet donut throttle