Any Arduino enthusiasts or C+ coders out there willing to help with a project (Star Citizen related)

[Slansickness]

I think I might start a TEST Modders Thread, making it easier to find certain stuff. We could have a catalog of mods we use (from physical mods like this joystick mod to what mods we use with our games), put together from all of us. I think it would be a cool way to see what others got going on and a good way to learn. Let me know what you guys think and maybe we can run it by Montoya.

That's a great idea. Since most of us will probably be using arduinos we could write some functions for common uses for the community to use copy/paste style. Makes it easy for newbies to get their devices working with a minimum of frustration. Maybe simple electronics stuff too.

 

[Krystal LeChuck]

For some reason the code wouldn't compile

The reason should be given to you by the debugger. That is what you need to focus at. Anyway I took a look at it and fixed the errors. It should compile now IF YOU HAVE THE SPARKFUN DRIVERS PROPERLY INSTALLED, else you will get errors such as error: 'ThumbState_t' does not name a type

The code should be as follows:

ThumbState_t thumbSt;

const bool DEBUG = false; // set to true to debug the raw values

int xPin = A2;
int yPin = A3;
int xZero, yZero;
int xValue, yValue;
int deadzone = 5; // smaller values will be set to 0


void setup(){
        pinMode(xPin, INPUT);
        pinMode(yPin, INPUT);
        if(DEBUG) {
                Serial.begin(9600);
        }
        // If at the neutral position you are reading a number too large, xZero will be positive, and get subtracted in the void loop, otherwise it will be negative, and get added.
        xZero = analogRead(xPin)-2048;
        yZero = analogRead(yPin)-2048;
        thumbSt.xAxis = 0;
        thumbSt.yAxis = 0;
}

void loop(){
xValue = analogRead(xPin) - xZero;
yValue = analogRead(yPin) - yZero;

//I'm pretty sure you need to keep the values between 0-4096, but I could be wrong
if( yValue < 0 ){
yValue = 0 ;
}
else if( yValue > 4096 ){
yValue = 4096;
}
if( xValue < 0 ){
xValue = 0;
}
else if( xValue > 4096 ){
xValue = 4096;
}

//I changed the deadzone stuff to work with values 0-4096
if(xValue< 2048+deadzone && xValue>2048-deadzone) {
xValue = 2048;
}
if(yValue< 2048+deadzone && yValue>2048-deadzone) {
yValue = 2048;
}

thumbSt.xAxis = map(xValue, 400, -400, -32768, 32768); // here the axis is inverted
thumbSt.yAxis = map(yValue, -400, 400, -32768, 32768);

if(DEBUG) {
Serial.print("X: ");
Serial.println(xValue);
Serial.print("Y: ");
Serial.println(yValue);
}

// Send to USB
Thumbstick.setState(&thumbSt);
}