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Adafruit PC Joystick to seesaw I2C Adapter – STEMMA QT / Qwiic: Coming quickly! Signal as much as be notified when these are in inventory
Again in my day, we used to have these large chunky PC joysticks that may plug into the again of your PC. No, not via USB, that they had a DE-15 port they usually’d go into the Recreation Port your sound results card. Now, after all, now we have tons of USB ports and high quality audio is constructed into each laptop. However what if you wish to re-live your Commander Eager days?
This board has a 15 pin D-Sub socket port, you can plug any traditional PC joystick into. Onboard is a ATtiny816 helper chip that acts as a I2C peripheral utilizing our ‘seesaw’ library. Two STEMMA QT ports imply you’ll be able to plug this board in utilizing a 4-pin JST SH cable to any microcontroller or microcomputer with I2C assist and skim the joystick X & Y plus the 2 buttons, even when your essential chip doesn’t have analog inputs. There’s even a 5V energy generator on-board since joysticks expect that voltage.
Nice for changing outdated controllers without having to chop any cables. We’ve got instance code for Arduino and CircuitPython / Python to make your subsequent pew pew mission a breeze.
Adafruit Metro RP2040: Coming quickly! Signal as much as be notified when these are in inventory
Choo! Choo! That is the RP2040 Metro Line, making all station stops at “Twin Cortex M0+ mountain”, “264K RAM round-about” and “16 Megabytes of Flash city”. This practice is pile excessive with {hardware} that enhances the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip to make it a wonderful growth board for tasks that need Arduino-shape-compatibility or simply want the additional house and debugging ports.
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