I saw a video on YT of a fine gentleman who had a great, cheap way of housing a joystick on his office chair. This is my take. It will allow you to remove your controller, and use the chair reasonably without inconvenience.
Other than printing the arts you will need some sort of base for your stick, I used perspex I had spare. Wood would suffice also. You will also need some sort of metal flat bar. I bought the pictured one from Jewsons (UK) for about £6 and cut it down. https://www.jewson.co.uk/building-materials/metalwork/straps-restraints/products/HWL09F00/simpson-restraint-strap-flat-900-x-25mm/ elsewhere it may be called a wall restraint strap or wall plate.
Build –
Loosen screws under your office chair and slide in the metal rods. Once you have your desired length, tighten everything up.
Print the Bar safety cover and Bar cover. The Bar safety cover houses the metalwork, the ‘Safety cover’ glues on top of it, covering the metalwork and creating a lip around it for the Mount slider.
Screw your top of choice to the ‘To perspex’ print and glue that to the mount slider.
Throttle
This should be self explainatory, however pop some inner tube in your bracket for grip and screw with 4M 40mm screws, print with support. The ‘shelf’ bit rotates so that it should fit a number of mounting angels, just pop some 3mm machine screws in to keep it, or glue it.
Done
I hope you enjoy. If you think it worthy, please tip. It’ll help buy more PLA, allow more wastage perfecting things and persuade my wife it’s all worth it.
Print Settings
Printer:
Geeetech i3 Pro B
Rafts:
No
Supports:
Yes
Resolution:
0.2
Infill:
15% or so
Notes:
I used supports in the Mount slider print, as it has channeling.
Post-Printing
Throttle shelf
I created screw holes in tthe LH Shelf. If you want a different shape shelf for it just remove the top 5mm, the shelf bit. Then you should be able to use the screw holes to secure your own shelf of ply, perspex etc.
Credits:
DeeRam
Download 3D models
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Office_Chair_Joystick___HOTAS_holder_partly_removable
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