FreeJoy VS FreeJoyWiki

Come on over to /r/hotasDIY. Best thing to do would be to get an STM32 Bluepill, get a 2 axis joystick from Adafruit (MPN: 245), get a breadboard (MPN: 4539), and some jumper wires (MPN: 1956). Then you can flash the Bluepill with Freejoy firmware and set it up with their configurator, no coding required.

See the bottom most reply: https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoy/issues/52

FreeJoy is a nice firmware for a game controller, but the used "Blue Phil" (STM32F103C8 ) boards very poor - build quality, components.

Similar - FreeJoy, but for STM32F103C8 - 'Blue Phil" cards, even more cheap.

7: Software: Will use Freejoy in a custom made "blue pill" that sits in the handle. More on it later.

No, the joystick base has a gimbal with hall sensors (no wear) and it's fully analog XY sensing. It also has a hall analog twist axis built in the upper handle. It runs FreeJoy firmware on a custom shaped bluepill (STM32F103C8T6). It gets fully identified as a usb joystick and works as normal. It can accept about 25 direct buttons and 8 analog axis, or up to 256 buttons using an array with diodes (that's for simpits, I suppose).

Once downloaded, open up and click on "Read config from Device" and then "Save config to file" to save the stock config for safekeeping. Then, select the "Axes Config" tab and calibrate the 3 pedals/axis. Once done, click on "Write config to Device" and also "Save config to file" again if you like. There's a wiki here if you get stuck: https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoyWiki

The electrical setup will be based on freejoy which works with very low cost STM32F103C8 microcontrollers. https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoyWiki

Not sure if you've already looked into it, but if you didn't check out shift registers. They'll allow you to run theoretically any number of buttons with only 5 wires by using daisy chain. In reality you'll probably be limited by the fact that Windows doesn't accept more than 64 buttons for each device in it's generic joystick interface. It's still plenty, though.

I've spent about 2 days trying to google the issue and gone over every join I've got with a multimeter, I'm pretty sure it's not a short which was the only issue I saw suggested. I've tried a variety of different ways of wiring the things up. I was originally trying to copy this wiring scheme.

STM32F103C8 "Blue Phil" flashed with FreeJoy firmware (require a USB dongle programer)

With "BluePill" STM32F103C8 flashed with FreeJoy firmware you can use:

ok so i got the board, i have the ship. . now all i need to figure out is the resistors. this image here only shows 1 resistor and capacitor? (did i read that correctly?) https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoyWiki/blob/master/eng/TLE501x-connection.md

like someone said i should use these https://github.com/FreeJoy-Team/FreeJoyWiki/blob/master/eng/TLE501x-connection.md over these https://www.amazon.com/Gikfun-AH3144E-Magnetic-Detector-Arduino/dp/B07QS6PN3B/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3IUR32C2ZB0QX&keywords=Hall+Effect+Sensor&qid=1645375830&sprefix=5+volt+10+ma+hall+effect+sensor%2Caps%2C55&sr=8-4