[sdiy] Joystick optical encoders

[Aaron Lanterman]

Here's a guide to decoding the datastream from a Playstation 2  
joystick, along with some appropriate PIC code - might be fun:

http://www.curiousinventor.com/guides/ps2

I also need to give a plug to the Curious Inventor website. It was  
started by GaTech Music Technology program alum Scott Driscoll, best  
known for his unspeakably awesome robot drummer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQS6tsogAA

- Aaron

On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Karl Ekdahl wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> So this talk about joysticks made me do a look around and i noticed  
> that there are joystick optical encoders out there and got  
> curious... has anyone played around with these? What kind of  
> precision are we looking at? How hard would it be to make an analog  
> voltage out for these things, i'm gonna guess it uses something  
> similar to grey code but i didn't really check it out that  
> thoroughly...
>
> Karl
>
>
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