I finally finished my first arcade joystick. Those of you who have been reading since the beginning will remember that I mentioned this thing early on, and even had a picture of the work in progress. Since then, I've replaced the top with lexan, swapped out the stick, and whipped up a control panel overlay with my very own custom name. I called it the "Wunderstick" partly in deference to my wife, and partly in homage to Roy Hobbs's famous bat Wonderboy in Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural. Course, I'd prefer that this controller doesn't split in half during furious sessions of Tekken Tag Tournament or Soul Calibur 2.



Here you can see the control box attached to the controller's back jack. I built it like this so that no matter what system comes out in the future, I can hack a controller pad and create a new interface for this controller.