Maestro controlled by Joystick

[DavidEGrayson]

Hello, Marcel.

One way to do this is to write a computer program that reads the input from the joystick and sends commands to the Maestro over USB. Please see the documentation of your particular operating system for information about how to do the former. Please see the “Writing PC Software to Control the Maestro” section of the Maestro User’s Guide for information about how to do the latter.

This perl program written by one of our customers might be useful to you, though I have not tried it:

Joystick controlled servos under Windows 7 in perl

Instructions; Plug in your XBox360 wireless remote controller (or some other joystick) Connect your Mini Maestro to COM5 (or adjust COM5 in the code below) Wiggling the joysticks will control servos 1, 2, and 3. Press “Y” to start recording your wiggles. Press “B” to stop recording Press “A” to play it back Press “X” to exit. If anyone knows how to talk to the Maestro using DLLs (eg: USB instead of serial commands), PLEASE let me know!!! #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Win32::API; use…

You should also take a look at the RoboRealm software, because it does support both joysticks and Maestros so something might be possible there. We did not create RoboRealm and we cannot support it, but here are some links that might be useful for you:

roborealm.com/help/Pololu_Maestro.php
roborealm.com/help/Joystick.php
roborealm.com/forum/index.php?thread_id=3718

–David