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8 years ago

How to connect a joystick to a de2 board

i have this joystick: http://tinkersphere.com/buttons-switches/922-joystick-breakout-module-arduino-raspberry-pi-compatible.html, and a breadboard. How would i go about connecting it to my de2 board....
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8 years ago

Is this the DE2 card you have: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=183&no=30&partno=1

If so, it has no analog inputs or ADC device, it is digital input only. So if you really want to use that joystick you will have to implement an external ADC (maybe using a small arduino board) and then having that board process the analog data to digital communications (like SPI or some such) that can connect to your DE2 card.