Using a PC Analogue joystick on Amiga with MY FIRST PCB.

[@005AGIMA]

Fantastic video Glenn. I fear a reality where I "inspire" anyone to do anything, never mind a PCB and related video lol. One small correction. I wasn't using the yoke for Flight sims, although back in the day, I did one session with it in F18 before realizing that you don't fly a jet fighter with a yoke lol. Love your work mate. Awesome.

[@CRG]

Ahh yeah that makes sense, jet fighters don't have yokes. Regardless though it was the push I needed to start some pcb work and I'm so glad I did because it's addictive! Already got my next one designed. Hope the adapter works for you.

[@TheRasteri]

great work mate! the magic of having your own PCBs made never gets old :)

[@CRG]

Thanks. It is very satisfying even for something as simple as this. Addictive too as I'm already working on the next one.

[@burnrubber7547]

Great work Glen. And i learned a few things watching this. Nice editing at 23:17 btw, slick👍. Just wanted to mention, I bought f15 strike eagle 2 for my Amiga back in the day. It's a cracking game and a natural successor to fa18 interceptor in my opinion. Looking forward to your next vid.

[@CRG]

Thanks, F15 does seem like a really good game. I need to spend some more time with it now that I've got the adapter. As for the editing, I like to try a bit of flare and especially when I'd already covered the build before.

[@somethingpeculiarthistime]

Haven't played F1GP since the early nineties but immediately after you started that lap, I remembered every corner like some kind of sleeper agent, activated from deep slumber.

[@Stoobers]

Excellent little project there Glenn :)

[@CRG]

Thanks, was fun to pull together.

[@rseasmith]

I've never dabbled in PCB creation/design, but it does seem prudent to start out with a breadboard for testing the schematic first. That way you're not waiting 3 weeks only to find out the capacitors were unnecessary.

[@CRG]

Ahh but that would be the sensible approach 😅 Will have to get a breadboard for the next project!

[@banedon8087]

@@CRG If you do buy a breadboard, I recommend not cheaping out as there's a distinct difference between the cheap ones and expensive ones with how well they work.

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

Nice work Glen. F1 I used to play full races back in the 90s. Happy days man.

[@BeniD82]

Good job with your first foray into PCB design! The first project is always a challenge but super exciting when it actually works. My first ever was designing a memory module for a Compaq SLT/286. Definitely bit off more than I could chew but got it to work in the end. Starting smaller and working your way up is definitely the (less frustrating) way to go :)

[@ralfr.5974]

Great Project! Your Videos are Awesome👍🏻

[@chrissalch693]

KiCad is a big win! I learned a bit on PCB design with Eagle and hadn't touched in years. Then I found KiCad and ran into a project that almost mandated a custom board (really weird shape, nasty to hand wire, etc). Other than a bit of fighting to get foot prints correct for some of the more esoteric components I've needed, it's been a very capable tool for me. I highly recommend it if you need a board design tool for anything DIY.

[@GadgetUK164]

Great job Glenn =D

[@daishi5571]

Well done learning a new skill.

[@julianbrown1331]

Nicely done!

[@daishi5571]

"It maybe is a shame that not more games on the Amiga support this sort of stick" Support for just a two button stick (let alone three) is up there with Unicorns being ridden by Bigfoot over the rainbow, even though the Amigas port was ready to go. If you read posts about some Amiga games on YT there are still people that believe the Amiga was a one button joystick computer.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

Good work. Exercise those geek muscles!

[@ltheden]

Good job Sir .

[@envoycdx]

Very cool. I have a few ideas myself for different projects. How did you find KiCAD to use?

[@CRG]

Once I got used to the interface it's easy enough. I work with AutoCAD in my day job though so I think that helps a little as they do have similarities.

[@envoycdx]

@CRG kool will have a play at some point

[@brynjarborgersen8131]

​@@CRG ahh, I learned a little AutoCAD some 25 years ago.... I have a feeling KiCad (and others) might have evolved a wee bit since those Pentium 166 machines with NT4 on..... Last electronic thing I used was called Electronic Workbench and ran under Win 3.1.....

[@g4z-kb7ct]

Yeah making PCBs is pretty amazing... something that was impossible 30 years ago now costs just a few dollars. I'm at the other end of the scale... After my Commodore 128D 1571 disk controller repro PCB I decapped the read/write hybrids in all Commodore floppy drives and fully reversed them all (there are 3 different versions with minor changes) using Eagle PCB. After a few weeks of work they were done. It's basically all common smd parts (caps/resistors/transistors) so should only cost a few dollars to build.

[@CRG]

Sounds like a cool project but it is great just how accessible PCB manufacturing is these days.

[@g4z-kb7ct]

The caps should be there but do not connect them together at the other end, just use a double-pole switch to disconnect them or 2 separate jumpers. With the caps not connected to gnd (with switch/jumper open) the caps should be completely open at the end. You could try it on your older design, add the parts and cut the trace on the caps so they are not joined. As the readme says, some games require the caps and some don't.... that's why in your testing some games worked and other didn't. Back to the old drawing board for version 3 ;-)

[@Ghost82uk]

Glen, you've done 2 things in this video that bug me You apologized for your circuit diagram, yeah it could be neatened up but it was functional, and you apologized for working with Kicad as a beginner, we all start somewhere and you made an amazing product A good bit of advice for Kicad is to download the digikey libraries, lots of useful components with premade footprints that are pretty good Practice altering footprints, I use Kicad for work for making student board products, but some of the premade footprints are a bit tight, for beginners especially, but sometimes solves issues just moving the centre leg of a transistor forward to avoid bridging Great work again mate

[@Anaerin]

I wonder if you were getting such different values because it looked like the calibration program was reading a byte (0-255) for each axis, whereas F1 appeared to be displaying a short (0-65535) based on the number of 0's

[@luk30001]

👍

[@garyhart6421]

I've had a 'PcJoy2AMIGA V1.2' (+ a Tornado Logic 3 stick) for a few years --- but never had much luck 😥

[@FloatingFatMan]

Nice work! How about for v3 you consider a USB version for more modern devices, like XBox/Playstation controllers? Perhaps even a wheel? :p

[@g4z-kb7ct]

That would require actual knowledge of how USB works and probably a PIC microcontroller and some code. This is not a thing you can just knock up with a few loose parts in 5 minutes. Anyway, there is already a 9-pin to USB joystick adapter out there which should work fine on the Amiga.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Haha, this takes me back to learning AutoCAD in school :) I only made one single-sided PCB though, and we etched it on site! (Well... gave to the teacher and watched him dunk 'em. The school's insurance didnae cover us working with the acid oursels!) I absolutely second the suggestion to get a breadboard - and make sure it's a good one! Cheap ones will do you no favours, with extra capacitance and dodgy connections. In fact, given the issues the capacitors gave you here, this circuit might never have worked quite right on a cheap'yun. But... aye. In the aforementioned AutoCAD adventure, the teacher made us all test our circuit on a breadboard first. Before we wasted any precious, UV-activated-whatever, blank PCB material on a useless circuit! Those transparencies for the printer didnae come cheap either ;) I suppose with how cheap professional PCBs are nowadays, that's all a wee bit less of a concern.