Joystick

Joysticks give us joy! Most joysticks are just two potentiometers aligned perpendicular to each other and hooked up to the same knob. We like these big fat joysticks from sparkfun which also have a push button. Parallax has a nice breakout board for their joystick . The parallax joystick has finer resolution than sparkfun's so its nice when you need precision control.

Tutorials

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Cellular Automata
From simple rules emerge mysterious and intricate patterns....
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LCD HSB Drawing
Control the hue, value and saturation on this pocket-sized joystick drawing machine....
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SD Navigator
Display bitmap images and text files and folders with this TFT LCD screen and SD Card navigator....
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Face Morphing
Mixing pixels from two face images together....
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Joy Gamer
Handheld gaming machine, based on the Arduino Leonardo, equipped with joystick, SD card and more....
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Lucid Bounce
Our take on the classic bouncing ball, paddle game....
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HID 3D
A hackable Human interface device in 3 dimensions....

Products

Parts

Title Description Cost Link Picture
Joystick Thumb joystick with push button. $3.95 Link 09032-03-l
HSB Joy PCB PCB controls a screen, thermal printer, joystick and SD card $11.95 Link Screen_shot_2013-03-01_at_7.31.39_pm
Joystick Potentiometer POT JOYSTICK 10K OHM W/SWITCHValue:Variable Resistors 10K $2.86 Link 252a103b60nb
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