A good use for old meccano

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A good use for old meccano

Postby Nitro » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:18 am

Two years ago I made a throttle control from some old meccano and some other parts my dad had lying around. I connected it to the game-port. The only pro was that when I bought a laptop it didn't have a game-port so I couldn't use it anymore, until I bought a usb to gameport converter.

Here is a picture of the thing.
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The most interesting part. The gears to connect lever and the pot
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I added this pot because a game-port device must have at least two axis to work in windows.
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My USB to game-port converter.
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