Long story short, I bought a Teensy++ 2.0 to build a midi foot pedal to use with my Synthstrom Deluge, but ended up buying the pedal they made specifically for it. Now I have a Teensy to use for something else.
I'm new to this sort of development, but used to be a front end dev and am not scared of code, so I'm curious if I can do something fun with some weird controller/arcade pieces I have lying around.
The first is a simple joystick that connects two pins when pressed in a particular direction. I imagine it would be simple enough to code these as 4 different momentary buttons (one for each direction), but I wonder if I could keep the button "firing" as long as I was pressing the joystick (ie, as long as the connections in one direction stayed closed). Could be useful for zooming, scrolling, etc.
The second is more complex, as it looks like a roller ball for a more involved setup. It has 15 connections, but seems like many of them are spare according to the data sheet (http://www.beisensors.com/pdfs/tbs11.pdf).
I'm basically trying to decide a) if these parts are useful to work with and b) if there's something fun I can do with the Teensy, since I no longer need it for a specific foot switch.
All thoughts or pointers are welcome---I expect this to be a lot of learning and no need to rush results (already installed Teensyduino, etc. on my PC). Thanks!
I'm new to this sort of development, but used to be a front end dev and am not scared of code, so I'm curious if I can do something fun with some weird controller/arcade pieces I have lying around.
The first is a simple joystick that connects two pins when pressed in a particular direction. I imagine it would be simple enough to code these as 4 different momentary buttons (one for each direction), but I wonder if I could keep the button "firing" as long as I was pressing the joystick (ie, as long as the connections in one direction stayed closed). Could be useful for zooming, scrolling, etc.
The second is more complex, as it looks like a roller ball for a more involved setup. It has 15 connections, but seems like many of them are spare according to the data sheet (http://www.beisensors.com/pdfs/tbs11.pdf).
I'm basically trying to decide a) if these parts are useful to work with and b) if there's something fun I can do with the Teensy, since I no longer need it for a specific foot switch.
All thoughts or pointers are welcome---I expect this to be a lot of learning and no need to rush results (already installed Teensyduino, etc. on my PC). Thanks!