RE: Dedicate Major Havoc rollers

At 09:36 AM 10/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I was thinking about trying it-- a quick visual inspection seems to
>indicate that the Kick(man) controller has a lot fewer "teeth" than a a
>Major Havoc roller, so you'd probably need to either spin the ball more
>or change out the interrupter wheel to get more "clocks per spin". :-)
>
>Seems like a roller controller would be a relatively easy thing to make.
>Have a plastic shop lathe a nice "roller" shape out of some translucent
>plastic. I'd be inclined to just drill it through the center, mount a
>shaft through it and use a couple trackball bearings and one-axis of the
>trackball encoder to finish it off.
>
>I have a prototype Major Havoc roller-controller-- the "roller" actually
>sat on two trackballbearings and has no center-shaft. Is that how it
>was for the production one? (Anyone have an exploded view of a Major
>Havoc roller controller online?)
>

On my production one it sits on two shafts that are on trackball bearings.

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