Example program of decoding the DF Robotics xbee joystick serial output

Dependencies:   mbed

Weapons and Systems Engineering mbed DFRobotJoystick Interface

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This page provides an example of reading an ASCII comma separated variable string from the DR Robot Wireless Gamepad using the mbed micro-controller. The DF Robbot Wireless Gamepad is an Arduino programmable game controller with an on-board xbee wireless transceiver module. The gamepads used in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department have been reprogrammed with the arduino sketch listed below.

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The output of the joystick follows the GPS NMEA 0183 protocol as an ASCII string preceded by an "$JOYSTK", and terminated with an asterisk and a two character checksum (hex representation).

Below is a screen shot of the data streaming in TeraTerminal when the gamepad is connected directly to the PC (through a virtual COM port).

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