Sidewinder FFB2 Modification (2/2)

There is a one interesting choice for the grip part, the Suncom F15, and there are a few examples of people trying this out (one being shown here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/gm6mde/suncom_f15_talon_stick_mounted_on_microsoft/).

Though it seems that all of the attempts involve externally mounting the grip to the original stick of FFB2 (or what's left of the central piece after the grip has been taken off), inevitably making the final product unnecessarily extended. With the relatively weak unmodified servos of FFB2, it might be a better idea to mount the grip as low as possible.

Therefore I designed a 3D part to bridge FFB2's gimbal to the grip of Suncom F-15 flight stick. With a few trial and error (and a lot of time on tinkercad), the final form was sent and printed out by commercial MJF printing.

Caveat: there is still some problems with the part, and I might need to fix them before having it published.

And with some effort mounting the part to replace the original piece that sits here.

Making the grip usb-compatible is just the final piece in the puzzle. It is largely the same process as the work done with the Warthog grip. Only exception is that you need a daisy-chained encoder for the buttons of the Suncom stick (which are merely on/off switches). I chose the 74hc165 Shift Register pre-built pcb. There are plenty of them available just everywhere online.

And the final result seems pretty good. I also managed to complete that (in April) before Razbam managed to ship their F-15E module for DCS World :)