This week we designed an interface for the flash game lunar lander:
https://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/lunarlander/play
I decided to use a joystick I had found on a trashed analog video switcher (think star wipes and word art titles of the 90’s). The joystick has a shuttle wheel mounted on its stem, which seemed great for rotating the spaceship. It also has a little button on top of the shuttle wheel that I figured would be great for the escape key (spacebar).
The joystick is made by CH Products in America. It turns out they make some amazing joysticks! Construction / farm equipment and CCTV / video, and flight sims. seem to be the main uses.
A quick scroll through their website and I found mine:
It has two 5K ohm potentiometers for x and y on the joystick, and a third for the shuttle wheel.
Here is my code to get it to send keyboard keys via USB. (‘w’, ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘d’)
Here is the “finished” product!
