DMX Followspot joystick. Fact ot Ficiton?

I am sure I am not the first LD to want to operate a moving light as a followspot. I have a guy who I can assign the task of spending the whole show following the main performer with a trackball. But while he's doing it, I can't use the trackball for anything else.

What would be awesome is an external joystick that can just move the XY values and maybe intensity for an assigned fixture. That way, he can sit to my side and do it, with his own controller, and I can run the rest of the board, with the whole board to myself.

Does anyone know of such a thing? Surely someone makes something like this!

Mutley Eugenius
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    These are good ideas and you are right. But I'm on a cruiseship with a single deck concerthall, and the overhead is really low, and my spotlight is above the crowds heads, so I can't put an operator there, it's gotta be remote. I like your 3PC idea. I did get good response with a trackball instead of a mouse, with the right sensitivity settings.

    I also have another trick of mounting a tiny security camera on the front of the light which shows on a monitor by my assistant, so he can always see exactly what direction to go to keep the performer in the dead center of his screen.

    I'm still having real difficulties getting the 3PC to run the show too without crashing the IPC...

    I was hoping for a controller that was designed just for that.
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    These are good ideas and you are right. But I'm on a cruiseship with a single deck concerthall, and the overhead is really low, and my spotlight is above the crowds heads, so I can't put an operator there, it's gotta be remote. I like your 3PC idea. I did get good response with a trackball instead of a mouse, with the right sensitivity settings.

    I also have another trick of mounting a tiny security camera on the front of the light which shows on a monitor by my assistant, so he can always see exactly what direction to go to keep the performer in the dead center of his screen.

    I'm still having real difficulties getting the 3PC to run the show too without crashing the IPC...

    I was hoping for a controller that was designed just for that.
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