Joystick Input on Lathe

I built a joystick for input on my lathe. I wrote a newsletter article that describes the build that's located here:
LinuxCNC Joystick

Files are included in the article for 3D printing the enclosure and for configuring LinuxCNC.

Andy-

I like it a lot. I have a pendant with a jogwheel (MPG), and I use it if I need to do a super fine adjustment, or if I want to "manually" cut, face or part. You can use the joystick to do that, and I have, but I think that you get better control with the jogwheel.

The thing that makes this nice:
- You can move easily in the X and Z direction at the same time
- The small button on the left side of the enclosure, when held down, makes the joystick work in turtle mode. When you don't push it down, you get rabbit mode. (I'm using Gmoccapy, and this is what it calls these modes)
- And of course the big thing is that I don't miss the buttons on my touch screen when I am focusing on the movement of the cutter
- It's inexpensive compared to a jogwheel

The main uses:
- moving the cutter around to align it with my tool setter
- making the large rough adjustments before setting Z, generally finalized with the jogwheel
- moving the cutter out of the way when measuring or mounting parts in the chuck