An Arduino Shield lets you to employ your Arduino for more than one project and to change the hardware setup easily. This little post is about a common (and cheap) Arduino Joystick Shield – the ...

Connect the GND from the joystick module to the Arduino GND rail, ... Now you can control the laser using the joystick. The servos will clip into the tilt-and-pan module as shown in Figure 10-4.

Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there's no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don't offer the best gaming ergonomics. A ...

An Arduino Uno provides the processing power and drives the serial monitor. A joystick and a Hitachi H48C accelerometer are mounted on a breadboard and wired to the Uno.