Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control of stepper or servo motors

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, my first thought was to use an analog joystick, since I have one floating around somewhere, but I thought there would be more USB host controllers around for reasonable prices.  It's not looking like that so far, so I may go with the analog option.  If I do, then I have to be able to tranlate the pot value of the joystick to a speed signal for the drive motor.

I'm still in the very early stages of this project, so pretty much everything is up in the air at the moment.

D

 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colin D Bennett
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:25 PM
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: OT - Joystick control of stepper or 
> servo motors
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:19:53 -0500
> "David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, electronics gurus!  I'm looking for suggestions on the best 
> > inexpensive way to use a USB game joystick to control 
> stepper or servo 
> > motors.
> > 
> > The application is using a joystick to drive the the platform 
> > positioning knobs on a microscope, to help me keep the 
> subjects in the 
> > field of view, while I'm photographing them.  I'll also be 
> adding the 
> > ability to trigger the camera shutter with the joy stick, 
> but I don't 
> > anticipate any trouble with that part; it's the motion control side 
> > that I have no experience with.
> 
> As far as the joystick goes, you might try to find a non-USB joystick.
> Maybe use a PlayStation 2 controller (two analog joysticks 
> and multiple buttons for extra control features) or find a 
> cheap analog PC joystick.
> Using USB where it's not suitable means you have a lot of 
> extra complexity and overhead.
> 
> Regards,
> Colin
> 
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