Atari style joystick interface with Arduino

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/06/12 @ 3:00 am
Category Electronics, Fun & Games

Michael writes in with an Atari style joystick interface made with an Arduino -

I just wanted to show you the Atari joystick interface that I made. A friend had challenged me to create an interface to an Atari style joystick. I thought immediately of the Arduino microcontroller board. I interfaced the joystick to the Inputs. And wrote a program that will serially output the state of each joystick position simultaneously. The LEDs that are hooked up are an output were a debugging tool to make sure the program was working correctly. I am working on a schematic in Eagle.(slowly as I’m trying to learn Eagle as well)

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3 Responses to Atari style joystick interface with Arduino

raph@raphnet.net on June 12th, 2007 at 5:47 am said:

I made a similar adapter which connects to USB as a standard HID joystick: http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/atari_usb/index_en.php

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Pingo Wellman on January 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm said:

Hey, that looks good. I’ve been thinking about doing something very similar. I want to use an ATMega128 to interface with a Thrustmaster F22 old joystick that I have.
The only problem is that it has like 8 buttons, instead of the 15-pin standard connection that has 2 for the 1st and 2 for the 2nd (for some reason the 15-pin joystick connection was originally made for 2 joysticks with 2 buttons each).
I know that the X and Y axis values are given by an oscillation of a certain freq, but I really don’t know what pin is what. Do u know were I could find the pin specifitacions of a thrustmaster F22 joystick or any 15-pin joystcik with 8 buttons (4 regular and 4 for the views)???

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Pingo Wellman on January 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm said:

Hey, that looks good. I’ve been thinking about doing something very similar. I want to use an ATMega128 to interface with a Thrustmaster F22 old joystick that I have.
The only problem is that it has like 8 buttons, instead of the 15-pin standard connection that has 2 for the 1st and 2 for the 2nd (for some reason the 15-pin joystick connection was originally made for 2 joysticks with 2 buttons each).
I know that the X and Y axis values are given by an oscillation of a certain freq, but I really don’t know what pin is what. Do u know were I could find the pin specifitacions of a thrustmaster F22 joystick or any 15-pin joystcik with 8 buttons (4 regular and 4 for the views)???

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