Purchased defunct, advertised as a joystick from a French fighter — best I could tell it came from a Dassault Mystère. Just a bare stick with a single potentiometer. I built a compact, self-sufficient USB joystick around it for basic flight sims — with slide-in/out sliders for throttle and mixture, custom springs for light centering, and an analog POV hat switch replacing the original two-position thumb switch. The plywood case was cut on an early version of my CNC router.

original photos of what was advertised as “french fighter jet joystick”.

The stick as it arrived — bare metal, one potentiometer, no electronics or grip internals.

prototyping, chassis, electronics.

An Mjoy16 board I had lying around, originally for ATmega16, re-routed with wire wrapping after converting it to Arduino with USB. Plywood chassis cut on the CNC router, with machined slider bushings for the throttle and mixture axes.

backfitting point-of-view controller into the stick.

Custom housing machined to fit an analog POV switch in place of the original two-position thumb switch.