Create USB flight joysticks using Arduino and Adafruit TinyUSB. This has only been tested on RP2040 boards such as the Raspberry Pi Pico using the Earle Philhower RP2040 board package.
This may work on other boards supported by the Adafruit TinyUSB library but no testing has been done.
The 3D joystick has the following controls.
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| X | 10 bits, 0..1023 |
| Y | 10 bits, 0..1023 |
| Z | 8 bits, 0..255 |
| Throttle | 8 bits, 0..255 |
| Buttons | 12 buttons |
| Hat | 8 way hat switch/direction pad |
The HID report has been carefully chosen so it works with the Xbox Adaptive Controller(XAC). All the other open source XAC joysticks I have seen use 8 bits for X and Y. When used with XAC, only the X, Y, and 8 buttons are supported. This is a limitation of the XAC.
Install this library by downloading a zip file from this repo. Use the IDE "Add .zip library" option.
Use the IDE Library Manager to install the following libraries.
- "Adafruit TinyUSB Library"
- "Adafruit NeoPixel"
Install this project as a library by download it as a ZIP file from https://github.com/touchgadget/flight_stick_tinyusb. Then use the Arduino IDE option to install the ZIP as a library.
If the following error message appears when compiling, change the USB Stack to "Adafruit TinyUSB" as it says in the message.
32 | #error TinyUSB is not selected, please select it in "Tools->Menu->USB Stack"
| ^~~~~