To use this demo, simply move the joystick around. The mouse will move slowly if you move the joystick a little off
center, and more quickly if you move it as far as it goes. Press down on the joystick to click the mouse. Awesome! Now
let's take a look at the code.
Create the Objects and Variables
First we create the mouse object.
Next, we set x_axis and y_axis to pins A0 and A1 . Then we set select to A2 , set it as input and give it a pullup.
The x and y axis on the joystick act like 2 potentiometers. We'll be using them just like we did in CircuitPython Analog
In (https://adafru.it/Bep). We set pot_min and pot_max to be the minimum and maximum voltage read from the
potentiometers. We assign step = (pot_max - pot_min) / 20.0 to use in a helper function.
CircuitPython HID Mouse Helpers
First we have the get_voltage() helper so we can get the correct readings from the potentiometers. Look familiar? We
learned about it in Analog In (https://adafru.it/Bep).
Second, we have steps(axis) . To use it, you provide it with the axis you're reading. This is where we're going to use
the step variable we assigned earlier. The potentiometer range is 0-3.29. This is a small range. It's even smaller with
the joystick because the joystick sits at the center of this range, 1.66, and the + and - of each axis is above and below
this number. Since we need to have thresholds in our code, we're going to map that range of 0-3.29 to while numbers
between 0-20.0 using this helper function. That way we can simplify our code and use larger ranges for our thresholds
instead of trying to figure out tiny decimal number changes.
Main Loop
First we assign x and y to read the voltages from x_axis and y_axis .
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