DIY Arduino Helicopter Collective Joystick Control -- Episode 440

Hey all.  I am building this project.. yes, 5 years late.  I have it all wired up, code is in the Arduino micro, and it is displaying as a joystick in Windows.  I could use some pointers to help complete the testing. The ACE is not working perfectly and the buttons are not working correctly. If anyone has time to help I would appreciate it.

can someone help me find the twitch live stream?

link is not working

I abandoned Arduino IDE a long time ago. I now use VSCODE and PlatfomeIO ( https://platformio.org/)
See even Cursor ( https://www.cursor.com ) the free version, which helps you (sometimes yes, sometimes not) thanks to AI.

It perfectly manages many modules like Arduino or even ESP32

Main advantage, we can see the calls to external libraries (source code) and better understand how to use them.

Above all, we can keep versions of old libraries for old projects, without necessarily having them updated. Which is impossible with the Arduino IDE. This allows us to resume old projects without fearing that a library update will bug, because a function is no longer supported.

At first, it seems more complicated to use, but in the end, we save a lot of time.

Enjoy VSCODE ( or Cursor ) and PlateformIO 

ok, I managed to load the correct libraries and the compilation was successful, we will see after assembling and uploading to Arduino

C:\Users\Activcom\Desktop\Helikopter\HeliCollective-master\HeliCollective-master\CollectiveControl\CollectiveControl.ino: In function 'void loop()':
C:\Users\Activcom\Desktop\Helikopter\HeliCollective-master\HeliCollective-master\CollectiveControl\CollectiveControl.ino:151:23: error: 'class ClickEncoder' has no member named 'getValue'
value += handleEnc->getValue();
^~~~~~~~
C:\Users\Activcom\Desktop\Helikopter\HeliCollective-master\HeliCollective-master\CollectiveControl\CollectiveControl.ino:188:17: error: 'Button' is not a member of 'ClickEncoder'
ClickEncoder::Button b = handleEnc->getButton();
^~~~~~
C:\Users\Activcom\Desktop\Helikopter\HeliCollective-master\HeliCollective-master\CollectiveControl\CollectiveControl.ino:189:7: error: 'b' was not declared in this scope
if (b != ClickEncoder::Open) {
^
C:\Users\Activcom\Desktop\Helikopter\HeliCollective-master\HeliCollective-master\CollectiveControl\CollectiveControl.ino:189:26: error: 'Open' is not a member of 'ClickEncoder'
if (b != ClickEncoder::Open) {
^~~~

exit status 1

Compilation error: 'class ClickEncoder' has no member named 'getValue'

Hi, I don't know how to write Arduino code and I have a problem with errors when compiling the code. Are you able to send me the correct code? I really want to make such controls for my son and I already have all the elements.

Sorry beacon_dave I should of checked, thank you once again.

If you look at the Adafruit example I linked to above, then they use this format to set the pin to an input with pullup:

// configure button pin for input with pull up
mcp.pinMode(BUTTON_PIN, INPUT_PULLUP);

Yes I have already changed that to mcp_I2C and that was OK, but as it reached the mcp pinMode it passed  15, 14 ,13 but halted on pinMode 12 button 4

with  "class adafruit_mcp23X17 has no member named pullup" I have checked that all 4 button pullups are writen exactly the same, and checked spelling for any changes, and all match.

You will likely need to change the mcp instance on the line below it as well, as per the Adafruit example.