Quote Originally Posted by AG-wolf View Post
not gonna work that way, unfortunately. THe NeGcon's stock pot has a very long swing, and then you set the max-travel point in-game with games that recognize its center/dead/stationary point. There might be a way around that, but it would require some crazy kind of work. I think it might be a kind of trial-and-error thing at this point, and work with one obstacle at a time lol
What way isn't going to work? If the POT is changed with one that has a shorter rotational angle it will 'sort of' work, but ya run the risk of damaging the POT and possibly the gears in the neGcon if the new POT is setup internally to have stops at the 90 degree marks, if it can travel the full 300 degrees, but the 10k is kept in the 90 degree range from center (5k to each side) then it will work without causing any damage. The POTs used on the controller's sticks have a much larger rotational angle than where the Resistive part of the element is, they work on a 45 degree angle, but can turn much further than that, the sticks design just doesn't let them and the 10k is kept in that 45 degree area.

Since the PS3 doesn't support the controller there is no way to set the dead zone and max range of the twisting in game, so that's not even an option, nor is it an option with a POT as that would take a variable, variable resistor.

About the only real way to go about it is to leave the POT that's in there, then use a PIC and DAC to take that Analog signal, convert it to digital so ya can do whatever ya need to with it, adjust the dead zone and set the max range, then go back to Analog via the DAC. That's a mess, and would require a good deal of coding to get done up, but it's doable and would give ya control over the twisting setting the same as an in game option would, but if you're going to go to that extent ya may as well code up the thing to just recognize the entire controller and just make up an adapter to interface with a PS3 controller.

As it is right now it takes around 200 degrees of rotation from a full left turn to a full right one with the 10k POT in there, and the only way to lower that staying in the hardware realm is to change the gearing or use a POT with a different rotational angle, but both methods cause the problem of being able to twist the neGcon further than the POT can, so while it's an option, it's just not the best one.