Smooth or amplify 3 meters analog input

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Hi all, I've completed a project with a joystick and a couple of servos and it does work fine.
I tryied to move the main joystick away from the arduino with 3mt of wires but the input became very inaccurate and in serial I see a lot of spikes.

Some say to use a lowpass filter, but I don't know if it is what I need because I don't need to "filter" spikes (I guess, maybe I'm totally wrong).

I can't have another arduino on the joystick, so a filter or something else is mandatory.

Any tips?

The DC current on vcc and gnd is 3v3 and it's perfect, only the signal became very noisy.

Thanks!

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Do you have an option to connect it to the 5v?

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mrleongalaxyum:
Do you have an option to connect it to the 5v?

my joystick is a 3v3, I guess that powering it with 5v could (should) damage it.

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You could try some small-value capacitors (0.1 to 1 microfarad ) connected between the joystick signal and ground wires.

Alternatively you could try using shielded wire out to the joystick with the outer shield connected to ground.

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Are you using a normal joystick or a joystick module?