Thumbstick for PC Gaming - using an Arduino UNO!! (*PC Gaming Joystick*) 

This could work for most ARPG, Hack&Slash, MOBA's, any bird perspective game like hades. Like razer tartarus keyboard but with a thumbstick for movement, brilliant

Super useful tutorial! exactly what I was looking for.

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This will help me so much, with my project.

as a disabled gamer this is exactly what i needed. having issues editing the code not sure what to edit or what to type- if you have any type of overview i’d appreciate it!

I was looking for this, thanks.

great tutorial

the python terminal says module serial has no attribute serial

I always considered fixing some retro-style controllers with joysticks, which were broken from the factory. Now, I would consider just ripping out the electronics and replacing them with a new board. Maybe a calibration function if I really don't find some N64-style joystick that actually works.

wow, i recently made a keyboard with leonardo and joystick shield. im using it to play 8 bit games but this is awesome!

You got new subscriber first because of playing Metro Exodus second because this was useful 😁

I have 2 x Saitek PZ31a units. I bought them about 8 years ago and cant imagine to use keyboard for any game with WASD movement. But anyway - this is also a great concept. Not perfect, because keyboard is not programmable but still far better than using so much fingers (3) only for movement.

Alright if anyone has problems with the joystick and bu problems i mean, always being at max value when is actually not all you have to do is this : Go to Arduino code and scroll all the way down where it displays the values and change xc and yc together basicall yc is fist and xc is second. Now second thing to do is: Go to your Arduino and change A0 and A1 together. Last step is to go into the python script and scroll all the qay down to where it reads the data. There you have to change dx to number 3 and dy to number 1 that should fix it. Hope it helped!

I really appreciate how thorough this is. I will have to give this a try. Did you ever upload any different 3d printed enclosures?

very epic thxxx 10/10 very clear

do you have any idea of how to make it so its not like the keyboard arrow buttons but as an actual controller thumb stick?

I wish there was a way to do an analogue version, would like to use this for racing games.

The python code wasn't running while I had arduino open, so if you have a permission error , run the python code with arduino closed.

Hi balla, is it possible to map/translate the analogue signal to a digital one and have a button to toggle between the 2 signals?

Man this is so awesome! I'm trying to do something similar-- maybe you'll have an idea of what I need to do. I want to decouple freelook from the usual Alt + Mouse to function exactly as yours does. Do you think this is possible due to the limitations of how freelook is bound in most FPS games? Thanks and great video!

can you please tell how to do it with a funduino board.I was trying to to it nearly 2 years but it didn't at a single time..

hey. i get an output on the serial monitor of the arduino software but nothing happens when the python script is running. could you help me here?

Hi this is really great, but I think there is something wrong because the serial monitor says the value of the button press is set to 1 and it will just stay that way even if I press the button. Please say if I did something wrong with the code. Thanks

I'm on COM3 and the code does not work for me, but in the arduino app I don't see anywhere to edit the COM4 to a COM3

Does this work for more buttons and another joystick

The serial monitor is working but it's not working in the games

Nice !....cheers.

good job you turned an analog joystick into a digital D-pad

I have bugs in Python that I'm not sure I can solve, could you please upload the project?

Props! simple print haha

When I want to open the program, it opens for a moment and then closes automatically

bro from where should buy all the components lmk

thank you for good project ... very useful... but audio is extremely low, almost impossible to hear what you are saying and difficult to follow

Does anyone know if there is a version for console player that use kbm

Does anyone understand why the JSButton wont stop being pressed?

Hello there, I have a small question about the actual button press unit of the code. Ive fiddled a bit with it, such as setting it to check if the input was LOW instead of HIGH, but my serial monitor permanently has the value of the button press set to 1. even when I press the joystick, nothing happens. If anyone has any solution for this, please leave a reply. Thanks :)

button always pressed in can i get sum help?

@BallaMOTO arduino has keyboard.write functions, where we could simply tell the computer directly the keyboard value we wish to press. would this not make the python step not necessary?

thank you so much for that it suprisingly worked bruh

It shows "NameError: name 'serial' is not defined" when i try to run the python program ,some help please

God! TY

not sure why, but this python code is NOT staying open, no matter what i do. ive added it to my PATH, edited it and added "input()" and other variations of the input function, including "atexit" functions... i literally had a thumbstick running on this code a few weeks ago. im not sure whats happening but im actually about to give up.

if not fully analog but you wouldn't notice?? xD is right there on the code man, right there, you can manage the analog values to make it more precise...

Hey, When i upload the code to the arduino , i check the serial monitor to work but what i see it's the joystick button that keep on pressing ?

Hey! Complete beginner here! How should i edit this code to get second joystick also in it? i have arduino ide code rdy, but how can i read second joystick values with python?

i keep getting the error Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\BloxyMind\downloads\Joystickctrl.py", line 4, in arduino = serial.Serial('COM3', 115200, timeout=.1) #serial input from arduino. change COM port to wherever your arduino is connected ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: module 'serial' has no attribute 'Serial' can someone plz help me

Se puede simular al mismo tiempo teclas del teclado con switchs perdona

When I run the python program in pycharm I get the message "Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:/Apps and stuff/Python/pycharm/PyCharm Community Edition 2021.1.2/my projects/JoystickP3.py", line 2, in import pydirectinput ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pydirectinput'" I've downloaded the pydirectinput and pyserial packages through cmd as administrator and I have the latest pip version. Idk how to fix this could someone help plz

If I don't do anything with my joystick, then what values should I get? I got: 0,0,0 and sometimes it flickers to 0,1,0

I thought an Aruduino uno could not work - had to use a Leonardo...what am I missing?

hi there, i found this as i was looking for something to replace my tartarus v2. the tartarus vs is fine but does have an issue where my character will start wondering off in one direction. from the research i have done i believe its down to the software , i do have quite a few key binds through the synapse software and not sure if there is anything that would work with it. soooooooooo i was looking for a thumb stick for pc! lol. i like the look of this but it does look like your thumb had a lot of travel. could i use another thumb stick?

dude, i get changing values from serial monitor even not touching the JOYSTICK MODULE. please help me ASAP

bro can we play flight simulator with this and how please and also i want to make it please help

hey for some reason it works just not the Jsbutton

Is it possible to assign keyboard buttons to pressing the joystick on the -y + y axis and on -x + x (axes -y = A + y = D -x = W + x = S? to use this joystick for a pc?

something is rly wrong in arduino code idk how to fix it but you should try

The joystick button is pressed all the time and does not stop...can anyone help to fix please??

The joystick is always going left for some reason even when i dont push anything. Please help. Thanks!

My access is dined can you help me

Hello plz send me the link of the connector

can i use it to play DCS world as a controller of the Jet?

How do you actually make the game recognize it ?

Tkank you! Can I modify the code a bit, so I can use different buttons and stuff?

I am not getting the code can anyone provide it to me

there is a glitch on my side

You could totally sell these I'd love one.

when I start monitoring , do I have an infinite ???????????????? What did I do wrong?

Why didn't you just skip the python and serial completely and use the arduino keyboard library?

would there be a way to program it into full 360 movement with this board

can you tell the pins. my joystick is not like yours

hi I loved the video but when i went to thingiverse the code was not there

I do not have acces to a Arduino Uno, could a nano work?

Could I pay to make me one

metro exodus is peak

some games will ban for something like this. they'll detect it as cheat..

I want the code😢😢

pagal

when i run the program it writes ⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮⸮ in the serial monitor for infinite times. Please help me to fix this problem..

Can you pleasee PLEASE provide me your code? I just need the joystick to work on my PC and thats it.

Dear everyone in the comment section who has not found a fix for the joystick button. I have also not found an "easy fix" like changing a value from low to high but I have tinkered with the code for the Arduino so that the button works, here it is below: const int JoyStick_pin = 8; //plug Joystick 'Button' into pin 8 const int X_pin = A0; //plug joystick X direction into pin A0 const int Y_pin = A1; //plug joystick Y direction into pin A1 int xc; int yc; int JSButton; #include ezButton button(JoyStick_pin); void setup() { // for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) { // pinMode(JoyStick_pin, INPUT); button.setDebounceTime(50); Serial.begin(115200); } void loop() { button.loop(); int x = analogRead(X_pin) - 517; //read x direction value and -517 to bring back to around 0 int y = analogRead(Y_pin) - 512; //read y direction value and -512 to bring back to around 0 if (x 10) { xc = 2; } else { xc = 1; } if (y 10) { yc = 2; } else { yc = 1; } int buttonstates = 0; buttonstates = button.getState(); //int buttonStates = 0; //set starting value of Joystick button //buttonStates |= ((digitalRead(JoyStick_pin) == LOW) ? 1 : 0) S1,1,0 Serial.print(xc); Serial.print(","); Serial.print(yc); Serial.print(","); Serial.println((buttonstates)); delay(40); } to make this work you will need to install the "ezbutton" library for the Arduino by going to tools > library manager then searching for it and installing it like that. this should make the button 0 when presses and 1 when not pressed in the serial monitor. after you must go to the python code and change the: if z = 1. to: if z = 0 and it should work. other than that thanks for the tutorial BallaMoto my brother likes his new gadget (:

The software solution is lousy. You're using the Joystick library to read in analog values but don't do anything meaningful with it. May as well be reading raw voltage readings. The added Python executable is an unnecessary added step, all it does is looks for an Arduino on the COM port and then reads Serial communication. But you don't need Serial communication to another program if Windows can talk to the Arduino fine. Check the documentation of the Joystick library instead of stealing and butchering code from another user.