Fit test… some cuting here and there ( plastic gimbal holders removal ) …but overall great fit I would say 
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Initial test of the gimbal went well. It was pleasure to fly DCS Mi8 with it.
New gimbal is placed litle bit lower in the base so it has restricted travel comparing to the plastic gimbal.
Sticking with it for now ( i.e. using ingame saturation ) as I am still not decided about the length of the stick.
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Will you be sharing plans or a parts list? This looks like it would fit inside my cougar base, who’s cheese-metal gimbal failed 5 years ago. But I’ll never sell it 
At least could you share links to the bearings & hall sensors?
I would like to share the plans… but there are none All the plans and design is atm only in my head. I am realy bad at planing / designing these things. My approach is usaly based on availability of the components.
Anyway this is an early prototype. Once I will start with the second proto I will put down some plans and part list as there are parts I would like to replace.
Nice!
What dampers are those. Details and where to order?
Perhaps angle them slightly upwards?
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I angled them upwards only slightly as I had to find a sweet spot there - travel of the damper perfectly covers travel of the stick. Little too much up and damper will be unable to fully extend, little too much down and damper will not fully compress limiting the travel of the stick in both cases.
Test results : DCS & XP helos are good. DCS & XP fixed wings are doable but realy strange feeling with this kind of controls
As I mentioned in the other thread, for the stick these two dampers are too stiff imo. But it will work for now.
But you know @troll, all these experiments only discloses that I have to continue to the final solution : Baur’s dual-cam design ( used in VPC WarBRD ).
As I see it dual-cams could serve perfectly for both helos and fixed wings - cams with no-center will provide enough precision around the center for fine handling of the helos and the springs centering force will provide the needed feeling for the fixed wings.
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That’s a really clever design.
Huh, wanted to order the replacement WarBRD CosmoSim Cams from VPC.
Set of Cams - 24 EUR
Shipping - 15 EUR
Now what ? Should I just bite the bullet and buy them or should I DIY them !? …decisions…
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Just the cams?
If you are doing dual scissor cams, I´d say DIY. Have a look at the pics in my BRD-N review, for inspiration…
Yes, just the dual scissors cams.
Exact drawing will be handy 
VPC did some adjustments to their shipping methods… now it is 18EUR instead of 15 
So if anyone, within EU, has set of spare WarBRD cams laying around I will be interested
Hello,
First of all, compliments to you. This Joystickbase looks dope.
I am planning to start this similar project also can you help out first with my Shoppinglist, advice, tips, pls ?
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Hey @Clyber, welcome to the forums!
I will first offer some tips or observations if you will.
-I have no 3D drawings nor paper drawings. I keep all my DIY concepts in my head.
-This gimbal was meant to be used as helicopter cyclic - no centering mechanism. So not realy suitable for fixed wings.
-I am not actively using it atm. Few months ago I bought used Saitek X55. And it works so well that I abandoned the concept of dedicated stick for fixed wings and dedicated cyclic for helos. X55, with its interchangeable springs, works well for both.
I will try to find it and put together some BOM for you if you are still interested
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Hey thank you for your quick response.
Ofcourse iam still interested in every info i can get my hand on to take off.
I want to make this base for a KA50 cyclic. Centring the cyclic wouldnt be a bad thing for helicopter sim even if it wouldnt be a one on one comparison in reality, this way i can use one base for diffrent sims.
Maybe i might be able to customize and upgrade as i prefer.
So yeah sent me whatever you have…
Thx in advance.
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Hello,
Hope you had a great Christmas.
About the dimensions…mentioned on the mainboard.
Are those dimensions enough for the joystick travel ?
40mmx 40mm seem so small…
I am concerned that the hallswitch will not have enough space to pick up all the movement needed for the calibration tool or thr game.
Regards
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I think those hall sensors are tangentially mounted relative the axis they are measuring, ergo they sense the rotation of the field, accuracy is probably more related to the strength and mounting distance of the magnet then anything else!
I hope this makes sense?
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Thx for your response Snark. I got that… but i am trying to determine the exact correct dimension of the base for the right travel of the the stick… as you can see and as he claimed, he needed to drop the total base lower in the housing to limit the stick travel, than trying to compensate with dampers on top. I think probably because there was too much travel on the x and y axes which isnt only physically uncomfortable when gaming, but also the over-travel would be useless because the sensors and the calibration software can pickup only a certain limited distance from the Joystick travel i think.
So i think you can eliminate these issues from the root on by making the base compact, thighter, and no bigger than needed for the stick to travel.
Before starting woth the build using these dimensions i want to determine the allowed Joystick travel, first i need to know how much travel the Windows axis calibration tool allows than i can start with the dimensions of the base. Iam still waiting on my hall switches to test this, but i hope in the meanwhile you guys can come up with idea’s or maybe you did test, measured, and compaired already let me know what you think or what you have.
Btw… iam still waiting on you Nevo. (what is BOM) ?
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If you plug those TLE5010 sensors to an arduino or teensy board, you can use MMJoy2 to make a USB controller of your own. With this you can utilize the whole 360° of the sensor. Well, minus a few degrees where it can be confused by the polarity change of the magnet.
But if you’re thinking of using existing hardware and software from a scrapped joystick, there may be other limitations.
Bill Of Material.
A list of the materials used.
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Ahhhh… snap !! … i couldnt and wouldnt ravel that one by my self… bill of Materials…thx 
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Thx for your quick response.
You used quite some terms there, i need to let it soak and marinade for a moment.
But thx for the info i will look in to these parts and get back to you. Is it okey if we exchange email ?
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