Taranis X9D M9 Gimbal Composite Thumbsticks

thingiverse

I’ve printed a few gimbal thumbsticks available on Thingiverse and I’ve not been totally happy with any of them, so I set about designing my own. My main problem was how grippy they were under my thumbs and I wondered how I could improve this. The solution I came up with was to make the thumbsticks as a two part composite piece, so the stick bottom could be made in PLA, while the thumb pad could be a softer, grippier material, like TPE, and then gluing the two pieces together. I also made four different grip designs to test which worked the best.