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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by funkaster on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:51AM (#16429812)
I don't have a source, but I wouldn't be surprised. I used to make custom fighting sticks (I even designed the firmware, which for me was the most fun part) and sold them north of $300 each. They were gone really fast. I didn't continue because it was time consuming and we just had a son :)
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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by insulanus on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:07AM (#16430430)
Why did your fighting sticks have firmware?
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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by softawre on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:56AM (#16430849)
Fighting sticks - like gamepads for fighting games, maybe?

https://www.frys.com/product/8805412

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by funkaster on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:54PM (#16434591)
Oh... it's basically a joystick. Fight stick -> arcade like joystick that is usually used on fighting games.

The firmware was basically usb-hid to behave like either joystick or keyboard. It also had some fancy de-bouncing code for the buttons.

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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by egypturnash on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:56PM (#16431409)
“Fightsticks” - joysticks for fighting games - often have the ability to program macros into their buttons, so as to make it easier to pull off the lengthy input sequences these games are built around.
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Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl... by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:26AM (#16430599)
Aren't all sticks made out of firmware?

But I, too, am very curious to hear the answer.

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