FFBeast Collective
Howdy! This is my collective with interchangeable heads, when I'm flying helicopters it's a collective, when I fly warbirds I will be able to swap heads and lock the arm in place using the motor.
Currently I only have the Huey head. The warbird head is work in progress, it'll be WWII inspired based on the Spitfire. I'll likely build a few different types, the Huey head was a fun quite small self-contained project.
The quick release uses a camera QR plate with a pogo connector for USB.
The throttle twist is an AS5600 and completely concealed internally.
The grip is Siraya Tech TPU air. It's magical stuff.
I used a centering spring effect with aggressive gradients to actively reduce the range of the collective and also to make it stay fixed in place. Plus some static damping.
The Huey head is based on the one from hc265ma.org modified to make it easier to print and also fit my requirements. I have just finished a redesign that makes it 10mm shallower to improve ergonomics.
Now I'm truly hooked on helicopters. A proper collective really makes all the difference and along with FFB on all the flight controls make it a much more intuitive.