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I just ordered a raspberry pi. My ultimate goal is to put together an arcade cabinet with it. What I'm stuck on is the hardware aspect of that. I'm looking at this for my joystick: http://www.adafruit.com/products/480 Is there a good tutorial somewhere that can take me from having a joystick to registering the input on my pi? I have no background in electrical engineering, so I am really at a loss as to what I need to do on the hardware side. Can I wire the joystick outputs directly to the GPIO and just configure an emulator to accept signals from the GPIO? Do I need a breadboard? What other hardware do I need (wires, breadboard, etc) to get it up and running. Or do I need to step back, and get some kind of foundation in electrical engineering so I can understand what's going on?
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 06:21 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:14 |
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Thanks! I have never soldered before but I can buy the stuff if I need to. I was looking at the ipac2 also- http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html. I was just considering it because it might simplify things for me to be able to connect via usb and still have my GPIO ports available. I'll let you know which way I end up going. From some additional reading I did online it sounds like a lot of people buy pc controllers and just crack them open for the boards.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 23:11 |