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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: mathiasx on Mon, 20 July 2015, 12:02:26

Title: Building a trackpoint-style pointer with this PSP-style joystick?
Post by: mathiasx on Mon, 20 July 2015, 12:02:26

Has anyone tried to use one of these as a "Trackpoint"? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9426

Just curious -- the teensy should be really easy to hook up for mouse events; I've wired Sparkfun's XBox-controller-style joystick to it before for mouse events.  This looks like it'd fit into a keyboard case a bit better as well as being lower profile and less room needed around it than the XBox controller style joystick.

(https://cdn.sparkfun.com//assets/parts/3/0/7/2/09426-01.jpg)

Title: Re: Building a trackpoint-style pointer with this PSP-style joystick?
Post by: neverused on Sat, 29 August 2015, 18:23:17

It should work just fine, sometimes I've seen a 10k resistor needed, but it depends. Look up "psp analog arduino" and the principal should be the same.