control Arduino Robot using Joystick

April 23, 2012 by Ayoub Zaki

I succeed in getting Arduino controlled from a PC using a Joystick 🙂

I used python game module for that. The code right now is dirty so I’ll have first to clean it up then I’ll share it.

The next step will be to control the Beagleboard + Arduino Robot via a wireless connection.

Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Comments

on April 24, 2012 at 3:58 am | Reply Shashank Kulkarni

Hey! Neatly done 🙂
Can you please tell more about the joy-stick you used? The name, the output type and more about the python game module?
on April 24, 2012 at 8:01 am | Reply Ayoub Zaki

Hi Shashank,

I’m using this Logitech Joystick:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming/joysticks/devices/302
But any standard joystick that is supported in Linux should work.

For the Python module I used pygame.

Cheers
on April 24, 2012 at 9:03 am | Reply Shashank Kulkarni

Thanks a lot, Ayoub.
on April 24, 2012 at 9:15 am | Reply Ayoub Zaki

your’re welcome 😉
on April 27, 2012 at 5:09 pm | Reply This Week in Robotics | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

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on November 7, 2012 at 9:42 pm | Reply Ryan

any way you could show the program and upload the code you use to send input from joystick to arduino? great job by the way!
- on November 8, 2012 at 12:43 am | Reply Ayoub Zaki
  
  I’ll try to put a link for code soon.
on February 1, 2014 at 12:07 am | Reply Hunor

Hi! Great job 🙂
Is the codebase available somwhere? I don’t mind if it is not cleaned up yet, I’d be happy to check it out.
Thanks