Thanks for all the time involved! Hope you are safe and well. Have too much time on my hands right now and found an old, very similar joystick I still had. Going to force my son to learn old-school electronics, RS232, MIDI devices, TTL, Logic diagrams, soldering (all that fun stuff!) I've found that he doesn't enjoy wrestling in the mud with pigs nearly as much as I. Too bad for him...
Thank you! Everyone I know are good, just a little bit stressed. I hope you and your close ones are well too. You're right, this may be a great opportunity for some time consuming projects at home that take mind off things a bit. One idea that came to my mind that you can do with your son, is if you have a fairly old PC somewhere with LPT port, you can try making Covox "sound card" with your son for it (there are some old games that will be compatible to test it). I found that it may be tricky to get some components now and Covox only needs connectors and resistors, even Wiki has a schematic en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing It's a cool, simple DAC to learn how it works. Stay safe!
Yep, but I had an old USB gamepad and decided to turn it into a project :) or it was a very cheap one, I can't remember. Either way the converter is a way to go without a hassle of putting it all instide.
You will have to see for yourself but that method should work with most devices with Game Port 😀 it may be tricky because some of the signals may not match what gamepad is expecting. Keep in mind that each game pad is a little bit different in terms of deadzone and what they interpret in terms of how resistance translates to position. It may be a good idea to try and test it by connecting to Gameport plug so you won't have to disassemble to test if it works.
