Haha, I can't take credit for noticing it. One of the applicants pointed it out (can't remember which one now). And speaking of org maintenance, I haven't forgotten about the emblem and page update. It's just been sidelined a for a bit with 2.0 directing my attention and free time to getting the multi-axis throttle project in motion.
The general concept is now complete. Details wise, the linear motion hardware, potentiometers, microcontroller, OLED screen, hat switches, and analog thumb stick are spec'd out. Just a matter of lining up the other buttons and toggle switches and ordering the whole mess before the end of the year. Then comes assembly of the motion hardware, stick design prototyping on the 3D printer, and coding the microcontroller with all the planned features. The biggest gamble will be hoping the general concept of the cam-esque centering mechanism ends up working. I'd rather not have to resort to elastics.
Assuming everything works out, it'll be a 4 axis throttle (Side to side, back and forth, up and down, and a rotational axis around the forearm for roll - the primary joystick's roll axis becomes yaw, pedals get nixed.) with an analog thumb stick for gimbals and on foot movement. The microcontroller will allow fun stuff like calibration, curves, etc to be done in the hardware, enable hardware based layer maps for functional overloading of the buttons, enable a precision mode for the thumbstick, and various other things like cruise control (locking an axis pot's output to a given value dynamically).
So yeah, my plate's full for a bit. Probably wont be until March at the earliest that I'll have time to really get back to working on the page. If we're really lucky, CIG might have even worked on implementing org functionality in the PU by then.
