Use this 3D Printed Hotas Turn your Xbox One controller into a throttle-and-stick

We are very excited to be adding this XBox HOTAS Setup by Akaki Kuumeri. This is the reason we started Angled.io so that anyone can create useful products and immediately get them into production and reap the benefits.

Akaki will be receiving a royalty of 25% of all sales of this device on Angled. We are taking care of the 3D Printing and fulfillment. This way the designer is able to focus on creating more awesome product it is possible for the average person to get access to the great 3D Printed products that are being created everyday. Check out the original article from the verge about the project below

3D Printed Snap-on XBOX gamepad HOTAS joystick

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Republished from The Verge

Microsoft Flight Simulator has got a lot of people hankering to take to the virtual skies. But for many the experience isn’t complete without a flight stick of some sort. With lots of these now sold out that can be tough. But here’s a solution: 3D-printed parts that snap onto an Xbox One controller for a DIY conversion into a hands on throttle-and-stick or HOTAS.

This amazing little mod is the work of Akaki Kuumeri, a 3D printing tinkerer who maintains a YouTube channel showing off some of his creations. Kuumeri has made a video for this mod, too, and it’s well worth a watch, just for the groanworthy selection of puns alone.

If you want to made the mod yourself, Kuumeri has uploaded the plans to Thingiverse to download for free. You’ll need to have access to a 3D printer, of course. Everything just snaps together, and there’s even the option to fit elastic bands inside the linkages to adjust the spring force on the stick and throttle.

Some caveats: responding to questions on Reddit, Kuumeri notes that the parts don’t work with the Xbox 360 controller or PS4 controller (though he says he may work on the latter if there’s enough interest). By his own account, though, the whole setup works surprisingly smoothly. “I expected the ball joints to have some slop, which [on] the scale of a thumb stick would be too much to play accurately, but they’re absolutely perfect,” he told one questioner. “It also helps that the Xbox thumb sticks are on a very smooth hinge themselves.”
So if you’ve not been able to grab yourself a flight stick, this looks like the next best thing.