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Do you have or plan to someday use mechanical rotary style joysticks? Want to build a standalone panel with a ton of controls? Want to make it hot-swappable?
Or maybe you'd like to add another
40 inputs / rotary joystick capabilities to your
KeyWiz , GP-Wiz or other encoder installation? Want to do it without it costing a fortune?
Introducing the lightning-fast
GP-Wiz40 USB compatible controls interface with integrated
Roto-X Technology! The GP-Wiz40 includes the most advanced rotary joystick implementation available. Costly specialized interfaces with limited capabilities are no longer required to use mechanical rotary joysticks, thanks to GroovyGameGear's
exclusive Roto-X Technology.
Features:
- Super-Fast USB compatible Gamepad functionality. Reports the status of ALL 40 inputs up to 125 times a second!!! Much faster than standard USB Keyboard technology.
- No limitation on the number of simultaneous button presses and each input has equal priority.
- Plug and Play HID compatible device. Tested with 98SE, Win2K/XP, Windows 7 and Linux. Will also most likely work with other systems that comply with the the HID specification.
- Completely bus powered.
- Common GROUND wiring method. If you see a device with more claimed outputs than it has pins on the chip, it probably uses a messy matrix approach, which can cause ghosting and requires specially paired wiring. The GP-Wiz requires only one input wire and a single shared common ground line to any switch, for super simple wiring and troubleshooting.
- Large, Widely spaced "EZ-Solder" input connections.
- Small footprint. 1.55" x 4.65" board fits just about anywhere.
- Includes 6' USB A to B cable, and printed instruction sheet.
Roto-X Specific Features
- Dual, Independent Rotary control support. The Roto-X compatible inputs operate as standard button / joystick inputs until activated by the user. This allows for toggle switches and other "normally active" controls to be used on any of the Roto-X capable inputs without issue.
- User tunable pulse output. Match the Roto-X pulse timings to the application for best performance. This is a purely optional feature, as the default hardware timings have been meticulously tested with the most common applications to insure compatibility "out of the box".
- Unique Dual-mode Selectabiliy. Standard CW / CCW and exclusive "8-Way" mode. Finally, games with "Front Line-type" controls can be played with a standard rotary joystick!
- Compatible with any rotary switch with pin quantities in multiples of 3 + Ground. (3, 6, 9, 12, etc.)
- Fully Buffered. Each rotary has it's own dedicated 20 action circular buffer.
- Easy to use Software. May be used interactively (as shown below) or silently via the command line. (Click Screenshot to Download)
Note: Excellent
free 3rd party software is available to allow this interface to send keypresses for use with admin and front-end applications when necessary.
Documentation Links:
GP-Wiz40 Eco Documentation - (PDF)
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 January, 2006.