I've fallen into Elite: Dangerous recently, which got me to dust off my old Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. Unfortunately, the joystick's calibration meanders, so I have to have pretty big dead zones ...

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If you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement joystick, which, as you might… ...