Screw in joystick

[iprice]

I have a Monopoly set that is based on the EU. The money is in Ecus (European Currency unit). Remember those before the Euro?

 

[spud42]

my kids kept losing and damaging the monopoly money so i scanned it and copied my own. i work in a copier business so i get free prints......

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

I believe some 3rd party megadrive pads had such a "Screw Stick" feature. I think I suggested it in a thread somewhere many moons ago in relation to something or other. Ah yes, I recall I thought it would be useful for converting a d-pad on a mobile phone into a joystick- some older phones had shitty approximations of d-pads.

 

[levi]

I remember for some older nokias - the sort that would run snake and you'd use the 8/2/4/6 keys to navigate, you used to be able to buy an oddly shaped thing that slid over the phone and would press the keys as you bent the stick on it. It was just made out of fairly rigid clear plastic, and the slackness in the clamp or the general flex in the plastic let you press the buttons with it. But since you could only really play snake on those phones, I guess they didn't get much use.

On later phones that actually had a four-way pad for navigation, the problem was usually the laxness of the dome contacts, and proving extra leverage with a screw in stick would probably not make a very workable d-pad/stick.

 

[mecksg1]

The case design and such will be released shortly after the Pyra is released. A 3D printed D-PAD or nubs sticks could very well be easily done.

yay i just got a 3d printer lol