> >    I'am thinking about building a sort of simple but reliable joystick
> > with maximum endurance.

> For this sort of an application you should look at commercial Joysticks,
the
> ones used in arcade games are very reliable, and ones for industrial use
are
> about the same, they all use the same idea, micro switches. they have 4
> switches, one on each end of travel, and allow either left right, up down,
> left right and up down, or 8 direction travel ie up right.

Agree. An alternative if starting anew is to look at optically interrupted
beams or magnets and Hall sensors. With a linear Hall sensor you can even
get linear response (with processing) with no moving parts apart from the
joystick mechanism proper.


        RM

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