{"id":9403,"date":"2014-04-20T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2014-04-20T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:51:30","slug":"use-an-analog-joystick-with-the-raspberrypi-and-an-mcp3008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"Use an analog joystick with the #RaspberryPi and an MCP3008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/analogue_joystick_01.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Hawkins&#8217; site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/\">Raspberry Pi Spy<\/a> has been a constant source of reference for me when creating the Picorder, my box-with-sensors. Many of those sensors provide analog outputs (which I read using an MCP3008) and Matt has now written a tutorial in which he uses an analog joystick to provide input to the Pi. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2014\/04\/using-a-joystick-on-the-raspberry-pi-using-an-mcp3008\/\">Read how he did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hawkins&#8217; site Raspberry Pi Spy has been a constant source of reference for me when creating the Picorder, my box-with-sensors. Many of those sensors provide analog outputs (which I read using an MCP3008) and Matt has now written a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9403\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,50,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-making","category-programming","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Use an analog joystick with the #RaspberryPi and an MCP3008 - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9403\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Use an analog joystick with the #RaspberryPi and an MCP3008 - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matt Hawkins&#8217; site Raspberry Pi Spy has been a constant source of reference for me when creating the Picorder, my box-with-sensors. 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