The optical joystick has only advantages over the inductive joystick hall effect joystick and potentiometer joystick.
Hall effect sensor joystick mod.
Step files are.
Joystick mod hall effect sensors in a logitech 3d pro.
Looking to have small parts printed for mounting the magnets and sensors inside the joystick.
Attempting project found here.
My x52 last all of 2 years before the sensors just stopped working and started giving super jittery and completely inaccurate inputs in both the throttle and the stick.
Joystick mod hall effect sensors in a logitech 3d pro.
In order to compatible with arduino it should be powered by 5v and output 2 axis analog values in the range within 0 5v.
A third hall effect sensor is used to measure a throttle stick positioned on the side of the box.
Hall effect joystick have many variant.
An alternative joystick solution is the as5013 hall effect ic from ams which uses a tiny moving magnet to determine x y position.
This a special version of arduino that can emulate as a usb hid joystick.
An arduino micro reads the sensors and converts the analog signal to usb.