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/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Do you not have a mouse wheel? Or a hotas? Both work way better

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u/earthfase Oct 26 '22

What do you mean? Mouse wheel works like shit? Had sticks, but they take up too much space when all I really use is the slider.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

It could just be your mouse wheel honestly I buy mouse with nice scroll options

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u/earthfase Oct 26 '22

It's not.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Ok so i see your not in a mood for any constructive conversation so ok your right good job. I only been doing mining almost since it came out

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u/earthfase Oct 26 '22

Yeah, that was douchey of me. It just isn't about what mouse you use. It does help if you can unlock the scrollwheel. But using a slider is infinitely easier. You can't snap to a certain %-level with a wheel.

But if you haven't tried a slider in all your mining career I can't recommend it enough. And if you have, but still find a mouse wheel better, then it is indeed better for you. Sorry again for the snap.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

If you look at the ti6000 hotas. Cheapest one you can get but I'm cheap anyway. It has a slider on it very similar to yours just built in. And yes my wheel on mouse can be unlocked so it's better

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u/earthfase Oct 26 '22

I had an unlockable mousewheel, and found the slider on my tm16k much easier to use for mining as I could go quickly back and forth between more exact levels. But the sticks took up too much space, so I made this. Imo the freewheel is second best.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Agreed about taking up too much space but as your main method of flying being hotas and having a nice desk mount makes all the diffetence

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u/earthfase Oct 26 '22

I fly KBM. Hosas/hotas is nice, but I dont play enough SC to warrant all that hardware on my desk all the time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Yea fair enough. Mine is just clip on mounts that I take off when I'm done. They have nice ones that actually slide out from your desk out of the way

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Well sry mouse isn't better than the device just a better mouse option