control of 12v DC motor with joystick?how to!

[nkthapliyal]

hi,
Iam working on a project in which there is a requirement of fabricating a moving platformn in elevation and traverse to mount a camera. As of now I am using two 12 v DC motors for traverse and elevation and am moving them in both the directions by using normal 5 amp switches. Now I want to fabricate a control cct for using a joy stick to move both the motors in both the directions.I have got a normal PC game port joy stick. I do not want rate control and hence want to remove the pots forn the joy stick and use normal micro switches. How do I go about designing the cct pl advice.

 

[john1]

Hi nkthapliyal,

This post from Sebi gives an easy solution,

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/spi-communication-for-pic-16f877a.2627/

Normal micro switches would be ok,
those little 'button' clickers wont take much current.

Best of luck with it,
John

 

[Sebi]

The old Commodore joystick can do this without modification...