I was wondering if it's possible to connect a USB female connector to the arduino board and then read data from a PC gamepad? I want to use the analog sticks of the gamepad to control servos. I have tried searching the forums but haven't found anyone using a USB gamepad.
Thanks
I was wondering if it's possible to connect a USB female connector to the arduino board and then read data from a PC gamepad? I want to use the analog sticks of the gamepad to control servos. I have tried searching the forums but haven't found anyone using a USB gamepad.
If it is a USB device then the short answer is no you can't. You might have better luck if you could find a pre-USB gamepad to use instead.
--Phil.
An analog joystick is basically just 2 potentiometers. So you should be able to hook up the two analog joysticks to 4 analog pins on the Arduino board.
One caveat though! On some cheap playstation clone gamepads the joysticks are wired (on the PCB) in a wiered way that makes them work more like on / off switches than like pots. I disassembled such a gamepad (for a non Arduino related projected) and ended up cutting all the PCB traces around the joystick and just soldered wires directly to the potentiometer solder tabs to make them work.
Thanks for the info, i might go for a playstation 2 controller instead. I found som code and instructions how to use them without having to mod them.