Dragon 32 Joystick Adapter

I recently purchased a Dragon 32 off of Ebay, in desperate need of some love and attention. A few tweaks here and there, much head scratching and after I got it working I even retrobrited it… restoring it to its former 1982 glory!

This project supplied me with all the geekery goodness I could ask for; retro gaming, electronics, 3D printing and restoring a classic computer from the past!

The computer came with no cables so I made up my own data and video cable; after a wee bit of research, I found that the Dragon 32’s joysticks were of the analog type (and pretty rubbish by the reviews I read) So I decided to look into a way of converting it to digital (such as the best joystick ever made… the Atari 2600 joystick) and I stumbled across this site

http://vrai.net/retro/?p=112

Here was my solution; design a circuit board and 3D print the enclosure!

The circuit design was pretty straightforward; I teach electronics, so I thought that I would try new techniques with the enclos