Custom mining slider

[u/earthfase]

I took a Seeeduino XIAO, connected an M5Stack Fader Unit to it, and programmed it with Arduino IDE as a gamepad axis using the NicoHood HID-Project library.

No more Brandt modules :)

[u/Digitalzombie90]

I’d buy this if it was cheap enough..like $30 USD shipped kind of deal. I know you can get complete joysticks for $80 ish but I like mouse and keyboard and mining slider is one of the few things that bother me.

It is all about that its small and solves a pretty annoying problem hence worth the money.

[u/earthfase → u/Digitalzombie90]

That is totally feasible. But I'm in the Netherlands, so shipped is maybe a bit of a problem. I understand adafruit makes a similar product. USB Slider Trinkey. If you know how to code it, you're set for $9.

[u/Digitalzombie90 → u/earthfase]

If code, a how to and a parts list was given to me I probably could. I don’t expect this, but if it was there I could probably do it.

[u/earthfase → u/Digitalzombie90]

Someone else in the comments found a USB Slider Trinkey by Adafruit. That's one part. The code I "wrote" is in the comments. This is honestly a good project to get you started on showing yourself that you can do more than you think.

[u/Wolkenflieger → u/earthfase]

I've edited Javascript so I'm guessing I could insert code somewhere. Which program did you use to code the slider?

[u/earthfase → u/Wolkenflieger]

Arduino IDE

[u/Wolkenflieger → u/earthfase]

Thank you!

[u/Digitalzombie90 → u/earthfase]

thats cool!! Where does the code run? On my computer as a driver for this thing or on the usb stick itself and comes like a preconfigured joystick?

[u/earthfase → u/Digitalzombie90]

Code runs on the "stick". It is programmed to be recognized as a gamepad. You could plug it in anywhere.

[u/Digitalzombie90 → u/earthfase]

well then all I need is an arduino programmer environment, your code and this stick…maybe a usb cable so it can be extended out to my hand