www.jaycrowe.com

It's not very hard to solder the board, if you can get one.

Just need a simple soldering iron.

Otherwise, maybe see if you can find some high school electronics person, who would solder it for you for $20 ?

I mapped the WASD in Skyrim to the Spaceball 4000.

So I gues it's not true analog control as you are wanting.

I found that if I used "Always Run", the spaceball and trackball combination worked quite well.

My goal was to eliminate the keyboard, and I suceeded in that for almost every key press.
I ...

I have found the ultimate gaming set up for Skyrim.


Spaceball 4000 FLX with OrbShield and a Microsoft Trackball Explorer

Also a reclining gaming chair.


Think of Lawnmower man chair, with 2 side tables, left hand side is Spaceball 4000, right hand side is Microsft Trackball Explorer.

No need to ...

Interesting site from original inventor of Spaceball, SpaceOrb.
He has a new 3D mouse called the Astroid.

http://www.spatialfreedom.com/pages/default.asp


Some cool history information here:

http://www.spatialfreedom.com/pages/content.asp?pid=1

http://www.deinmeister.de/spmcur_e.htm

This is a link to SpaceMouse Cursor tool.

With this software I was able to get SpaceMouse, SpaceBall, and SpaceOrb 360, assigned to keyboard buttons.
You can map any button or Axis movement to a Key on your keyboard.

I had to use 2.82 3DConnexion drivers.
I ...

http://spacemice.wikidot.com/


This is a good link for resources on SpaceMouse, Spaceball.

Also lots of other devices I didn't know about.

I couldn't even get the sketches to compile on anything but Arduino 018

Maybe double check what sketches you are using

It sounds like it may be the UNO board

Well it's proven working on Duelmilanove board
So you might have to go that route

I'm a new convert to SpaceOrb, SpaceBall, SpaceMouse.

Got them working in part thanks to this Discussion board, and vputz's Orbshield.

Were there ever any new links for the firmware detector ?

I still dont know what firmware my SpaceOrb is, but luckily it works.

I know this post is kind of old,
but for the Spaceball 4000FLX you have to have both dip switches 1 and 2, ON.

That's in Vic Putz's information here :

http://orbduino.sourceforge.net/program ... d_use.html

I also got some USB device not recognized errors when first trying things.

I'd suggest trying Arduino 018 software install.

Also make sure you dont have any other COM drivers , like Bluetooth, 3DConnexion, etc.
Deinstall all other COM drivers first.

Also this sounds weird I know, but I wiggled my ...

I got it through Amazon, and it was eligible for Super Saving shipping, but you have to buy at least $25.
So I found something else cheap to order to make my order at least $25.

It shipped in about 1 week.

Here is a link


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004A7 ... 01_details

Wanted to post that I ordered and built an Orb Shield V1.0 in March 2012.

Got the kit in about 2 weeks, and built in 1 hour.

Got everything working, my challenges were mostly COM port related, as well as Key Button mappings.

I posted in another thread my tips.

Thanks to Vic Putz for the Orb ...

I also picked up a used Space Navigator and Space Pilot USB on Ebay.

Using the 3DConnexion Beta v10 drivers, I was able to map keyboard and mouse for gameplay.

However, I still seem to like the Spaceball and Orbshield better.

I think the gain control setting is better, and control is finer using ...

I am going to post the links I used.
While this may be old info for some, it took me a while to find all this.


Here are the links I used.

This the one that got me started. However he used Arduino 019, which I couldnt get to work.... I had to use 018.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog ...