Just curious if anyone has attempted to use a racing sim E-Brake handle as a STOL style flap lever. I feel like it should work as they utilize a hall sensor to read the position, Just have to fab up some form of simple detent positions, Should be simple enough in arduino to make a script. Im just getting back into the sim and I think this will be the direction I’m going,
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I’m with you on this question. I actually bought an e-brake controller to mod, but I ended up getting a Johnson bar flap lever off a real piper arrow from an aircraft parts dealer. I’ve had it sitting around for a year, thinking about way to turn it into a controller, but haven’t had the time to really get into it.
I use a hand brake (bought on Amazon) as a STOL style flap lever:
This lever is a cheap one, and the built in sensor was really bad. So I just used a slide potentiometer to measure the handle position (a hall sensor would be better). Then Im using Arduino and the MagicPot library to read the input. The Arduino then connects to SPAD.next by its serial lib.SPAD speaks with the sim.
(GitHub - francobasaglia/MagicPot: Arduino library for read values easily from potentiometers)
Nice to see others that play sim racing also. I need to try this out with mine.