About joystick

Lynxmotion Robot Arms
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Hi,all
One mouth ago ,i bought L6 from lynxmotion,
i want to use the joystick to control it ,
but i don’t konw how to do it ,
the one who used the joystick can help me ,
the first step i can do .

thanks in advance !

2

You can control the robot with a play station style USB controller connected to the PC using our RIOS program. Alternately you can control the arm with a Bot Board II, Atom 28 processor and our PS2 controller using this mini tutorial.
lynxmotion.com/images/html/build091.htm

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If you want to DIY a program, you migh try the fairly simple Just Basic programming application. I made a simple program to operate a servo based pan/tilt cam via a joystick using another type servo controller. Below is a thread where I posted some code including some gamepad code. Bottom is some code that displays the values received from the joystick for experimentation. I’ve got some code I was testing with the ssc-32, but my $5 joystick has pretty sloppy pots and I often get out of range errors.

lynxmotion.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3655

nomainwin
open "joystick demo" for graphics as #joy
#joy "down" 'put the pen down
#joy "trapclose [quit]"
timer 100, [readStick] 'every tenth second read the stick
wait

[readStick]
    scan
    readjoystick 1 'either 1 or 2
    #joy "place 50 50"
    #joy "\Reading X = ";Joy1x;"       " 'either 1 or 2
    #joy "\Reading Y = ";Joy1y;"       " 'either 1 or 2
    x = int(Joy1x/256)                   'either 1 or 2
    y = int(Joy1y/256)                   'either 1 or 2
    #joy "\Reading X = "; x;"    "
    #joy "\Reading Y = "; y;"    "

    #joy "\Reading jb1 = "; Joy1button1;"  " 'either 1 or 2
    #joy "\Reading jb2 = "; Joy1button2;"  " 'either 1 or 2

    wait

[quit]
    close #joy
    end