Arduino Board and FRC Victors

[Cory]

Originally Posted by DavisC

Thanks all. Yea I set it all up and tested it with the default "Servo Knob" example. Which worked great! I also added part to turn the 0 to 179 value into a -1 to 1 value and used the serial monitor to see the relative value.

Now I believe this is by far a stretch (considering the code is on the board), but has anyone successfully used a joystick with this? When using the computer, the only idea I would have is to somehow (i have no clue) send the joystick value to the board such as what the serial monitor does?

Also have you used the game pad shield to try and control it?

Sure. A joystick likely just has a potentiometer inside. Wire it to an analog input, then use the analogRead() function to get the value from the joystick. use the map() command to map the values of the joystick pot onto the range of values you are supplying the victor.

The Arduino website reference section will tell you how to setup all these commands.