Joystick Wiring 1/3

Let's jump straight in, I've got my Livid Breakout board, my joysticks and my initiative!!

Below i have made a schematic for how the joysticks are to be wired to the potentiometer section of the breakout Board. I am also using sparkfun joystick breakouts. 

As you can see, each joystick has 2 signal cables, one vertical (X) and one horizontal (Y) 

The way i have wired the voltage and ground is in a daisy chain. i will explain this a little bit more in part 2/3. but for now we will just be doing some practical.

Below is some wire that i ripped out of an old PC i had laying around. this is just the HDD light cable that goes from the front bezel to the motherboard. good colours for what i want to demonstrate. red is our voltage and white is the ground, they are also pre-twisted so its not as messy!

Cut a small amount for the end so you have 2 of each colour one large and one small.

Strip these and twist together like the picture.

We now have a simple one-step daisy chain!

If you want more just add multiple little pieces of wire like a necklace.

Now, with your vice or helping hands, put the first voltage and ground wire into your joystick breakout and solder. hopefully you have a better quality soldering iron than me :(

Now find your Signal Cables, i have decided to use orange! because it rhymes with nothing! solder these connections. NOTE* if you have these joystick breakout boards, you may notice a hole called "sel" this is the signal for the built in selector switch, i have decided that its not relevant, but i am sure that it could be hooked up somehow if needs be, but would involve using the button matrix and adding voltage and ground wires.

What you want to do now is get your small daisy chain wires and hook up the voltage and ground to the second joystick, then add the signal cable, and you should have something like what i have below.

Stay tuned.... in part 2/3 i will be explaining our daisy chain and hooking up the the breakout board!

Cheers!