Thread: Controlling the camera with a joystick
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Re: Controlling the camera with a joystick
Assuming you mean that you want to move the servos on the camera mount using a joystick, yes it is indeed possible.

We've been playing around with such control for about a week. Here is a one method in LabVIEW. Essentially you can tell the servo "goal" position to increment by 1 (or another value) every time the main loop loops if a certain condition is met (i.e. a joystick in a particular position). The servos will constantly goal seek on this new position. We accomplished this by storing the "goal" position in a shift register and incrementing/decrementing/not changing this value depending on a case statement triggered by a joystick.

Again this in LabVIEW but the same principle should apply in Java and C.

Hope this helps,
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