Viewer Challenge: Use an Analog Stick as a Mouse!

Hi Ben,

my name is Tim. I see your portable Raspberry Pi and that inspired me to build my own portable Raspberry Pi. I want to use an analog stick from a controller to simulate the mouse movement.

I don't have any idea how to make it. I was wondering if you could help me .

yours sincerely, Tim

I'm from Germany so my English isn't the best .

0 colecago over 12 years ago

I don't think the Pi has analog inputs which would be needed, so you'd have to write some decent code to do this with some I2C analog ic's, or you can use something like the Teensy as a USB HID mouse which is what I'd recommend
http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_mouse.html
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0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Hello! The raspberry pi does not have analog input, so you would need an analog to digital converted (the mcp3008) which can be bought here at adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com/products/856 or on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MCP3008-Analog-to-Digital-10-Bit-8-CH-for-Rapberry-Pi-and-Arduino-ADC-SPI-/271301257762?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2ad0aa22. To use it as a mouse try http://www.newsdownload.co.uk/pages/RPiGpioPspAnalogJoystick.html, Jason Birch has created a driver for a 2-axis analog joystick to be used as a mouse. Hope it helps!

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0 Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks for your request
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0 kidiccurus over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

I'd probably use an Arduino Leonardo. It kind of defeats the point of a portable though, since it is about the same size as the pi.
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0 royston02 over 11 years ago

Oyua controller does the same thing.
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