3D Printed Yoke

3D printed Yoke and Throttle

Some time ago, I modified a CH yoke to make it better. But now with time, kids grow, space gets tighter, so my cockpit ended up in the basement. I can't fly there because I would need to have the PC there, which on the other hand I need on my room.
So I bought myself a Meta Quest 3 headset, and to be honest I don't regret it. Using it with the FS2024 takes flying to a whole new level, the only thing missing is a motion chair or platform but who knows in the future ;).
While using the Quest, I wanted to add more realism, which made me make another yoke together with throttle and mixture, as well as 1 switch for the landing gear/parking brake and two switches for the flaps. This way I would have all the basic controls to fly the Cessna (or other aircrafts as well). I printed the yoke in gree, the reason is simply because I had plenty of green ABS filament, and when using with the quest, the color won't matter anyway, but later I painted it in black just for the looks of it.
This makes things even better now that I just bought a Bambu Lab P1S Combo, which is a fantastic 3D printer.

So the yoke should:
- Be almost all 3D printed (except for the electronics and sliding mechanism)
- Use only 1 Arduino Pro micro
- Have 14 buttons (10 on the yoke and 2 for the parking brake/ landing gear and 2 for flaps)
- 5 axis (aileron, elevator, throttle, mixture and rudder to be added later)
- have throttle, mixture, landing gear and flaps added to the side
- be able to add rudder pedals later

As for the non 3D printed parts, you can buy them locally or order them from internet, I have included some links which are not affiliated, so use whatever you find the cheapest.

Besides the 3D Printed parts, you will need:

300mm x 250mm x 10mm (LxWxH) piece of wood (or 3D print it)
300mm x 100mm x 10mm (LxWxH) piece of wood (or 3D print int)
Pair of Drawer slides also 300mm (can be shorter or longer)
Polypropylene pipe (water tube)
- 250mm length
- 18mm inner diameter
- 25.5mm outer diameter
Bearings (Aliexpress link)- couldn't find 25.5mm inner diameter locally so I went with bigger ones (55mm x 30mm) and 3d printed two rings
- 55mm outer diameter
- 30mm inner diameter
2 springs or rubber bands
1 x Arduino pro micro 16Mhz 5V (Aliexpress link)
2 rotary potentiometers (Aliexpress link) - you can choose any type, but the 3d printed pot holders are made for the particular ones from the link, of course you can make your owns If you want to use other pots.
2 x 75mm sliding pots (Aliexpress link) - the throttle box is made for 75mm long sliding pots.
10 x 6mm x 6mm x 5mm tactile switches (Aliexpress link)
2 x limiting switches (Aliexpress link)
1x on-on 3 pin toggle switch (Aliexpress link)
Wires ( I am using stripped LAN cable wires since they are thin and flexible)
Screws
Glue

In the picture above you see the yoke using springs, i have replaced them with rubber-band because they were making to much noise.

Note:
Depending on your 3D Printer, filament, location, room temperature etc., you may get different results. I those cases, if some parts are loose, use a bit of tape or eventually glue.

To be able to print the yoke, you need to have a printing area of 256mm by 256mm (Bambu Lab X, P Series).

I painted the yoke and the box in black, here are the results.

And here is a video of the yoke in action:

I have also been thinking of making a dual Yoke with the same system.