edit: adding 3K's awesome sketch of the project so LoL friends can easily see what I'm working on ....
Hi Adriano,
Thanks so much for offering to help me with this project. I've set up this post here so that you can read about my plans for this project. Hopefully this build thread will also help other aging gamers who are trying to avoid retirement or who are trying to come out of retirement from gaming.
My plan for coming out of retirement from league of legends is to use a pen tablet for pointing and clicking along with a one-handed grip style controller similar to the grip of a pistol but without the barrel.
The grip will have Eight buttons on the grip, a PS Vita analog stick on top, and three buttons surrounding the analog stick accessible to my thumb.
As you have mentioned having done in your project, I plan to use a Leonardo board along with cherry mx red switches for the buttons.
To begin with I need some help understanding which items in addition to the Leonardo board that I need in order to connect the cherry switches and analog stick to the board.
Thus far it seems that the items I need to purchase include:
The Leonardo board itself
A breadboard
Some wire
Soldering iron and solder
Something called pulldown resistors
The cherry switches
The PS Vita analog stick
A project box to put the board and other electronics into
Some wood and a dremel woodworking tool that I will use to fashion the grip first version which may possibly be done with a 3-D printer at a later time for a second version
Some of these items are a problem because I don't know which specific items to purchase. They include the wire, the breadboard, and the pulldown resistors.
I just don't know where to order these items from or what sizes I should get.
Hopefully if you can help me understand which specific items I need to order, I can at least get the parts needed for this project.
After that, I can start to try to understand how to use Arduino programming software in order to write this thing called the sketch along with learning how to wire all of the buttons and the analog stick.
Look forward to hearing from you when you return from holiday.