Blisstwig - a flight controller

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DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BUILDING IT; IT'S A PIECE OF JUNK; THIS IS JUST A COLLECTION OF HALF-BAKED IDEAS\nTHE JOYSTICK IS A MESS, IT'S STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE AND NEEDS A LOT OF WORK\nA sleek Joystick (Blisstwig, I had to use a thesaurus for this one) with a rotating head and separate throttle control,\nis just a backup plan at this point\nusing a handful of M3 and M2 screws, cylinder heads, and flatheads.\nI'm using 1 9mm potentiometer\nand 3 16mm potentiometers from Musikding\n(the usual electronic shop pots were absolute junk)\nalso 2 Sparkfun linear potentiometers\nthe joystick is quite stiff and I still need to figure out the return spring system for the jaw control\nIt turns out my UNO can't handle a joystick, so I'll have to upgrade to a Leonardo.\nI printed everything with a 0.8 nozzle, and all the screw and axle measurements are made for an 0.8 nozzle print.\nusing an 8mm aluminum pipe (so I can hide the wires) and 5mm aluminum rods for all other axles, to prevent rotation where it's not needed I use 2mm brass rods or sometimes 2mm copper pipe as pins.\nthe build is quite challenging and the design needs a lot of work; the joystick has a clunky feeling on my first attempt, so I'll have to investigate. \nOpenSCAD sources are included, but be warned they're a mess.