Has anyone successfully interfaced a USB Joystick to an Arduino?
I would like to do so. I think I will need a Arduino USB Host shield.
Is there a software include available for the USB Jopuystick?
Yeah, you should be fine hardware wise with just a usb host shield. You'll probably need some HID related libraries to get things to work correctly, but that can be found out with some quick googling.
I'm pretty sure you can use the same libraries that other people use to interface with Play Station and XBox controllers since all of these devices are considered "HID Gamepads", so, in theory, they all communicate in a similar way.
Maybe something like this is what your looking for.
Riva:
Maybe something like this is what your looking for.
A USB shield would do nearly the exact same thing, but in a form factor that is, I assume, easier to use.
Power_Broker:
A USB shield would do nearly the exact same thing, but in a form factor that is, I assume, easier to use.
Here is a link to the shield mentioned above.
@barryjo The two boards work in vastly different ways firmware wise, so you will need to decide what system best suits your needs.
I have a USB shield so I guess I will try to use it.
Searching for the library and example software may be a problem and I might hve to switch to the other board.
We'll see.
Since you have a USB host shield, use the IDE library manager to install USB Host Shield Library 2.0 by Oleg Mazzurov, et al. Next run the USBHIDJoystick example program which is included with the library.
If the shield is not working, try the board_qc example.
Will do. Thanks