I `m trying to use a joystic as a mouse but had some problems.

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Well, first of all I want to let you know that Im just starting to use arduino and I bought a model UNO R3 to start with it. Im trying to use a joystick "YwRobot" as a mouse but when I looked for some tutorials I found out that my joystick has 9 pins on it, instead of the common 6 pins; it has three more: a VCC, a GND and a S-K. Here`s a picture of it so you can see it:

I dont really know what is that S-k for and I dont know if it may be of use for making it work as a mouse, can you give some advices about it?

Also I was looking for tutorials to make it work, but I found out that the joystick is supposed to have a pin that says SEL which is connected to a digital pin of the arduino, but mine doesn`t have that one, so I wonder which pin has to be connected to arduino to be able to codify it?

I really appreciate your help :slight_smile:

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You will have trouble using a joystick as a mouse, because a mouse has one, two, or three buttons you can click, as well as moving it around.

I would start with what you know, instead of worrying too much about what you don't know.

See if you can read the position or movement from the x and y directions using the ardunio. If you don't know what s/k is, then don't use it.

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Thank you so much for your advises :slight_smile:
Ill be sure not to use the pins I dont know and I`ll start with just making it move in x and y direction :slight_smile:

Thanks again, just one more question... do you know about the REL pin? thats something I need even to make it move and I really dont know what it means.

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If your device doesn't have a SEL ( or REL ) pin, then you don't need to worry about. The tutorial where you saw that, was probably not the exact same device as yours.

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Oh ok I wont be using it.

Thanks for all your help :slight_smile: I really appreciate it. I`ll try making it right away and see if it works.

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I'm guessing the s-k pin is digital output from the press switch.

Interesting that that joystick has separate power for each axis.... I've never seen that before.

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Oh you are right, it may be the press button.

By the way I could connect the joystick to my arduino and now every time I move it, it prints different numbers. Now I`m just wondering how to make it respond as a mouse, and watching some videos I found that people use c++ for that, but do you think I can use java(netbeans) instead of that?

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The Uno does not have the USB interface to work as a mouse you need the Leonardo. Unless you are going to program a mouse driver that receives serial input.

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Steel17:
Oh you are right, it may be the press button.

By the way I could connect the joystick to my arduino and now every time I move it, it prints different numbers. Now I`m just wondering how to make it respond as a mouse, and watching some videos I found that people use c++ for that, but do you think I can use java(netbeans) instead of that?

c++ is the way to go if you want to get a mouse driver working well. What is your OS?

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oharkins:
The Uno does not have the USB interface to work as a mouse you need the Leonardo. Unless you are going to program a mouse driver that receives serial input.
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLeonardo

Oh my that´s really sad, well maybe I can only make it work for simple things but not like a mouse, Ill be sure to look for easier projects because Im starting to use it...
Thanks for the advise. :slight_smile:

oharkins:

Steel17:
Oh you are right, it may be the press button.

By the way I could connect the joystick to my arduino and now every time I move it, it prints different numbers. Now I`m just wondering how to make it respond as a mouse, and watching some videos I found that people use c++ for that, but do you think I can use java(netbeans) instead of that?

c++ is the way to go if you want to get a mouse driver working well. What is your OS?

My OS is windows, for being more specific is windows 7 :slight_smile: