Hi,
I am very new to Arduino. Very little programming experience(The little that I do is stuff like Unity IDE), and have been very interested in Arduino for a long time, and finally decided to pick up an ELegoo Uno R3. I've been watching some very basic tutorials that have helped me get started.
My question is testing my prototyping in Windows. So I have a push button that I have programmed(using the example push button sketch, and would like to see if I can use it to control a setting in one of the games on my PC. I have seen a lot of videos on youtube doing DIY Button boxes, but most of them are using other types of Arduinos that I don't have, like the micro and Leonardo. These ones show up as a USB Game Controller on their PC.
When I go to test my push button, Windows does not recognize my Arduino Uno R3 as a USB game controller. It recognizes the hardware as Unspecified, but I cannot find a way to test if my push button is working. I'm positive I've wired everything correctly, as I programmed my Serial port to display the value of my pushbutton as HIGH/LOW, and that works correctly, I just can't get the Arduino Uno to be recognized as a USB Game controller
What am I missing? Thanks for the help!