Flexure Joystick for Xbox

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An adapter to make your Xbox One or Series S/X controller into a flight stick. Features a compliant design flexure for the hinge, and another flexure for the linkage from the stick to the controller's right thumbstick. Print all parts as oriented in the STLs. I used 0.2 mm layers, with 3 perimeters, in eSun PLA+, with default settings on an Ender 3 and a Prusa Mini. No supports are needed. If you have a bad printer, the snap-in ball-and-cradle joint might not fit well. Re-print flexure_joint.stl with XY-compensation set to some appropriate value, or sand the knob, or use heat to remold the shape, etc., until it fits well. I will make a build video available later. For now, watch the montage in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZQwBcmanE and then follow these steps: Slide and glue the X and Y flexure hinges together with 2 drops of CA glue. Slide and glue the larger half of the stick onto the X flexure hinge. Snap in the dummy trigger and dummy buttons to their positions at the head of the stick, glue on the button faces for decoration. (don't glue the dummy buttons in, you can later upgrade to the full version with working buttons, with the files here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1049524850/3d-printable-flexure-joystick-for-xbox ) Glue the flat connecting member of the Y flexure into the matching slot in the controller mount. Slide the small lid piece into its slot in the stick head, and slide on the small half of the stick. Glue the flexure_knob.stl into its slot in the thumbstick flexure. Glue the thumbstick flexure into its slot in the controller mount. This glue joint must be as solid as possible. (the small piece in controller_mount.stl is not used, but you can glue it in its slot on top of the controller face buttons) To insert the controller, slide the mount from below, along the hand-grip of the controller, and carefully bend and lead the backside support of the mount piece around to the back of the controller.