Wich joystick to buy?

[MikkOwl]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Are the new drivers still not out, MikkOwl?

They came out in May I think, but they did not contain anything relating to the reversal bug. They were a temporary hotfix. The intent was to go straight for a major upgrade for the profiler software and other stuff but the customer complains warranted this diversion. I am still dissappointed about the reversal bug being there. Only thing I heard some month or two ago was that it shouldn't be too much longer for the major release. Surely they would not overlook the same issue..again?

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Building one's own stuff is fun. Or rather designing stuff is fun but building sucks. Takes so much time and is noisy, smelly and too much to go wrong.

When thinking about the cost of things (for example, more expensive controllers compared to cheaper do-it-yourself project) it is not just about money.

Imagine that building it will take perhaps 15-40 hours of work (not just assembly but finding the parts, getting the parts, studying guides on how to build, then building, then testing, then arranging/moving stuff around the room to make things fit out of the way, setting up/tuning, practical bla bla).

With all this work spent, would it have been possible to work overtime at the workplace instead to afford the more expensive system? Or work extra somewhere?

Because if you work 10 hours extra and get a nice working control system with the money, it is much less work, and probably more reliable and much more practical, than paying a bit less money and doing the big project.

Just some considerations. Depends what is possible and what is more desirable.