Home-made Hall effect joystick for Flight Simulator 2020 

If covid keeps this man busy he'll be 3d printing a chair that simulates g-forces

Dude, thanks so much for this. Your explanation of the hall effect sensor was fantastic. It helped me alot with regard to a project I've been banging my head against a wall trying to figure out.

It is an amazingly well designed joystick, the indipendent set of springs really makes it stand out from many commercial alternatives, even the t16000 from thrustmaster that also uses hall efffect

Nice vid, although would've been great if you went over the software side of things

Wow, this is amazing. Looks like i'm off to go buy some more M3's. really looking forward to seeing the files for the throttle and the rudder pedals. I always really appreciate people like you sharing and uploading projects like this, as sometimes responding to the community, creating build guides etc. is as much effort as doing the project in the first place!

Great video and really great ideas about the mechanical side of a custom joystick. Thank you! And, FYI the Hall Effect is named after Edwin Hall who discovered it in 1879.

Very clever designs and very inspirational. I ordered my magents and hall effect sensors right after watching this. Always wanted a proper throttle quadrant - all while not offending my bank manager.

Awesome video. I've been building a DIY throttle using an Arduino to use alongside an old joystick and had been thinking of how to do a joystick next. Great to see that the mechanism can actually be really quite simple and put together with cheap parts.

You put a lot of effort into this video! Nice work!

This is a very good explanation of using Hall Effect Sensors in Flight Sim applications. I think the materials used to construct the Joystick could be better. But as a starter project for someone wanting to explore building their own kit, this is one of the better beginner projects on RU-vid.

I'm a physicist and you explained it better than my university teachers 😂. Very nice and smart project indeed, learnt so many practical things, thnx a lot.

Came across your video while researching the possibility of converting the poorly designed Valve Index VR controllers to use hall effect joysticks. This gave me some ideas so thanks.

I love the ATmega32U4. For my master's thesis I developed an experimental type of solid state 6 dof joystick and I used this board also! I also used a ATmega32U4 board on a small bldc motor driver because it has a timer, timer4, that has 3 comparators on it so you can get the 3 phases setup super easy compared to timers without 3 comparators. Nice little chip

I think this is such an awesome project, but since I already have a decent joystick, I would love to see more of an in depth revisit of the throttle system you designed. I am currently building a DIY stream deck based on the same principles, and I was thinking of being able to dual purpose that with flight sim, Elite Dangerous, and a few others, but I would definitely need a throttle system to go along with it, and it would be nice to have something like yours. Thanks for the awesome video!

When i was unsuccesfully searching for x56 hotas joystick in my country (long gone due to Covid) everyday, then i see this! Finaly i can enjoy some dcs that i got and sitting in steam space for months due to lack of joystick. Thank you so much!

Love those clean 3d print components, looks good

I had a arduino joystick module laying around and after some modifications i got it working this is a really nice model thanks

Thanks so much for the info, especially how you used the hall effect sensor. Much appreciated!

Awesome work. Thanks for sharing. That's some cool engineering!

I searched so long for something like this! Thank you very much!

Man you are a legend! I would love to see some more in dept video about the programming of the arduino, I am just a beginner in programming.

My Genius Brother. I'm So Glad I Found You. I've been here awhile just wanted to give you a shout out. you deserve the 'LOVE' and as always Thanks again for the Tech Info. I Always use your Videos for Inspiration

I play some FS19, and was thinking of getting a second joystick. But building one was always in the back of my head, Thank you very much for this. It is really appreciated. The easy part is downloading the stl's hehe.

Excellent video! Many thanks 👍 Please keep flying MSFS and making 3D printed peripherals for it... we need more like this!

This is awesome! Thank you for explaining it as well. Also, the crash was pretty hilarious...

Awesome video and creation!, I saw your post in reddit today.

really cool design and result. will save it for later.

Great video! Though you might wanna look up the Hall effect. It's called that because it was discovered by Edwin Hall which is also why the "Hall" in Hall effect is capitalised. But in the end it's just a neat fact and not that crucial to the project. Your explanation of the effect was quite nice though. Might help people remember what it's called and what it does more easily. Keep up the tinkering!

I've been thinking about making something like this forever! thank you!

Pretty cool video. I am planning to 3D model my own design and stick. This video gave me lots of encouragement and knowledge for the project!!! 😀

By far the best one I've seen. I'd also love to see info on the throttle too.

thanks so much for this tutorial! i have a project ive been stuck on for so long on how i wanted to make it work but this is the Perfect mechanism im looking for. updates to come!

Very cool! I might give it a try, thanks for sharing!

this is awesome. i'm going down the rabbit hole of making a game controller again and hall effect sensors seem to much cleaner than a potentiometer

This looks so much better than the Thrustmaster T.16000M I'm currently using I'm absolutely done with twist-axis joysticks

I really like it! I will certainly give it a shot

Very cool project man, i think i will try to make it

great tutorial. I will like to do my own joystick too. Glad you made this. Btw you should check your configs in your slicer software :) you got huge holes in your 3d printed skin :D

Great design!!!

Forget Virpils got to print me some of these! :D

this is aamzing ur tallent is insane

This is amazing! Is there any chance that you could make a video on how to wire the throttle?

can you please release a vlog on how you made this idea of the linear magnet study? I hope you reach an audience group where what you did here has change how i think. Usually i used 1 magnet thinking of being cheap but as you ascertain this logic in, that concept i will accept given that you brought forward a solution. I hope the gaming community benefit alot from this.

This is fantastic. Very nice work! Always interesting to see the previous versions and what went wrong, thank you for that. Currently the Thingiverse pages are not operating for these 3 projects, I hope it for an update you're doing...? Either way, I really look forward to checking it out in detail. Thank you for this

7:35 I thought the Hall effect was named after its inventor Edwin Hall. LoL. It was. 😂 However, great video. 👍🏽

There is a compnay that demoed magnetic force feedback joysticks. That would be perfect for your stick!

Awesome project

Thank you a lot for sharing your knowledge! Helps me definitely :-)

I think the word you looking for is linear when the sensor is dead in the center of the field. By the way nice work on the joystick, thou rough but that's what expected from prototypes :)

Good job! I think there could be a better version if you make the hall sensor stationary and put those magnets on the moving parts.

Nice work, thank you so much!

Don't know if anyone else mentioned that already. In case not: You can activate the developer mode in the Sim to avoid having to reload after a crash.

3rd axis on this and you'd instantly put, like, 4 flight stick companies out of business,

Great video, thanks

GREAT PROJECT. I think a twin joystick for the increasingly popular space sim would be good as well. Im attempting the same same with a few RC plane gimbals M9frysky) and have them connected up but cant seem to get the great results you have (even after calibration the joysticks are over sensitive and screwy) I tried to modify your code but couln't add a second joystick. You make it look easy. Wish you could help.

The right type of Hall effect sensor for this application is a ratiometric linear hall effect sensor.

Nice, Awesome Project !!! I will design new Update about the 3D & new type of sensors

would you mind posting the STEP files so it is easier to mod?

I just made one and it works perfectly thanks

8:36 Me when I finally managed to put this together and MSFS just got an update

This is really amazing. I will print this. I also wonder if there is a way to adapt this for games that require 3 and 4 axies ala Kerbal Space Program or other space sims.

Welcome! Sir! I noticed you have your own-made throttle for the flight simulator. Could you please make a video describing what software or library you used for Arduino and the parts you used? Best regards, Michael.

Great work! But dude, get some dampening grease between those plastic surfaces rubbing against each other for a premium feel. See Nyogel 767A.

I think I would buy low profile mechanical keyboard switches for the face buttons.

This is awesome! How long did it take you to design/make it? You sound like you know what you’re doing and make it seem so easy. I’ve been trying to design a human input device for myself, no product design experience, and it’s way more difficult than I thought it would be. Your design is inspiring, and makes me want to try other ideas I have!

That face when he realizes he has to restart msfs

Can u please make a list of elements that you used: like end switch ...

Love it :)

Good video, but i have to know what the resistance of the potentiometer for the pedals is

Can you please make a video showing how to display different values from the simulator to an external display. Thanks

Teensy controllers have a hotas thing in them already. What I really like is I can make a stick that actually fits my hand

Thanks Legend!

The cat! Lol. 😂

This is exactly what I've been looking for! However, I'm having zero luck finding the specified AH3503 hall sensors in the USA. Can someone point me to a different part number that will work?

Hello, which region of the world and MSFS 2020 scenarios do you demonstrate your gadgets?? The presentation is very beautiful and I would like to fly there too!

just as a point, REAL joysticks (or flight controls) do not have a detent. The pressure on the controls comes from the pressure of the airflow against them.

The Hall effect is named so because it was discovered by a man named Edwin Hall

I'll be using an xbox joystick sensor module, kinda worried it'll be too flimsy. To mitigate, I'll use the joystick as a stopper that will make sure that the module doesn't overextend, to make sure I don't break the module.

Super fucking impressive

I am impressed. Thanks for good explanation. I am working on this type projects with esp32. I have question:) . Why did you use hall effect sensors rather than joystick modules? Its add complexity to your project(but it looks cool :)) and if you using pla, pla creeps under continuous stress (its happens to me but can't prove it :D im now using petg) Precision probably lower than potentiometers. Because you have to align correctly the magnets and all magnets don't have same magnetic flux.This is my thought i m not often use hall effects sensors, maybe i am wrong. And yes my grammar mistakes can hurt your eyes:D.

Bro, really great work! I don’t have access to a soldering kit but I would love to just buy a copy of this set from you if you built it for me.

please, show the rudders pedals... thank you, good job,

Great Poject, thank you for sharing the information and the files! I' m building it right now. How did you choose this specific hall sensor?

Very cool video, I'm trying to replace my pots in my racing pedals by making my own hall sensors and I'm using your advice to make them. Do you think I would still need two neodymium magnets or could I use one? Thanks in advance!

Hey I have printed this and put it together but I have a bit of play between the hinge and joystick shaft. Did you use washers between them. The play causes the elevation axis the go to close to one sensor so you get a stronger input.

excelente diseño! (awesome design!) Could you make a tutorial for the final configuration, wiring, and arduino script? thaks a lot, y really love this!

Congrats ! Great job! Could you kindly make a 3d printed YOKE version of this beautiful creation?

0:08 POV you be controlling the airliner

I wonder if this could work with DCS, super interested to play dcs but don't have the mula to buy a joystick and all those equipment.

Hey Akaki! awesome stuff. Trying to build the rudders now. Do you have a code for just that one specifically? Thank you and awesome build!!

Would you be so kind and draw a schematic how to solder the buttons and hall sensors to the arduino? Absolute beginners who just want to rebuild your flightstick need something like this ;)

Hello Akaki, I was looking for a substitute for the sensor SS496A1 because it is very expensive for me and I end up watching your video, do you think I can use the AH3503 without any differences?

hello akaki , there is hole for adrduino to connect through usb at the front side, than why there is big rectangle hole at back side?. in the video you connected with something like black flat cable.

thank you!

Is it possible to use the KEYESTUDIO Leonardo R3 ATMEGA32U4? Because it seems like the chip has the same name as the one you are using? Although nice done with this project! Keep it up, perhaps it could be cool to develop a Yoke version on this one, if is possible?

The only thing I am doing differently is I am going to try the Leo Bodnar board instead because there is no programming or soldering and it is built especially for Human Interface Devices. This is a simulator, not a game.

It might have been just my impression but it looked like there was a delay between the joystick moves and the game. How accurate it is?

I was definitely hoping to see more of the scripting side but I guess this isn't enough and I'll have to other research

Do you have a BOM for the throttle and rudder pedals also?

can other hall effect sensors be used? and if yes is there any change to be made