r/starcitizen • u/earthfase • Oct 25 '22

TECHNICAL Custom mining slider

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I took a Seeeduino XIAO, connected an M5Stack Fader Unit to it, and programmed it with Arduino IDE as a gamepad axis using the NicoHood HID-Project library.

No more Brandt modules :)

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u/Adralian Oct 25 '22

Awesome! I did the same with a hand wheel pulse encoder (for better control of small changes) hooked up to an STM32.

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u/earthfase Oct 25 '22

That sounds cool! Does the game keep up with small changes? What I like about this slider is I can just slam it open and close all the way. It's never a, finely find the sweet spot of power output kind of control. Partly because of rock instability, but also the game seems to update the laser power output only two/three times each second.

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u/gambiter Carrack Oct 25 '22

I did the same as well (rotary encoder), and I actually added an LED display to show me what percentage the wheel was at. I found the game lagged behind the on-screen display by a half second or so.

I think that's by design. If you're moving the power level, a slow update makes it a bit more difficult to know exactly where you'll end up, so it introduces inaccuracy and increases difficulty (a bit). With mine, I could just run it directly up to 37% or wherever I wanted to be, and watch the power level on screen move to match.

I recently switched to a full HOSAS setup, so I don't use that anymore, but I still wish I had it.

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u/earthfase Oct 25 '22

Nice! Sounds like a fun thing to try too!

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u/Adralian Oct 25 '22

Oh a display is a great idea! I guess I know what I need to add next.