Arduino Gamepad

Load Arduino Sketch

Then build and upload the Arduino sketch. I use inotool for that

ino build && ino upload

Use example

from serial import Serial
from gamepad import Gamepad

serial = Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0')
gamepad = Gamepad(serial)

Create the callback function

def move(self, event):
    print 'move', event.state.get_axes()

Attach the callback to an event

gamepad.on('move', move)
gamepad.listen()

Events

move
move-x
move-y
move-right
move-left
move-up
move-down
move-center
button
button-press
button-release
switch
switch-press
switch-release

Special events

The move-right, move-left, move-up and move-down events are holding when were fired and unholding when the move-center event is fired.

This is useful if you want to run some code by a timer. For example, imagine you want to implement pacman like game. If you move left the pacman will continue move left until it hit the next wall.

def move(event):
    while gamepad.is_holding(event):
        print 'move',
        if event.is_move_left():
            print 'left'
        elif event.is_move_right():
            print 'right'
        elif event.is_move_up():
            print 'up'
        elif event.is_move_down():
            print 'down'
        time.sleep(1)

def move_center(event):
    print "center", event.state.get_axes()

gamepad.on('move', move)
gamepad.on('move-center', move_center)
gamepad.listen()

Full example using a rgb led matrix: Snake

This is an example using another project: arduino-matrix-rgb

lvidarte / arduino-gamepad