I'm trying to wire up a throttle with a ton of buttons in the hand grip and minimal wiring space in the passage between the handle and main body. Best way to do it?

• FreeJoyWiki

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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.

• ArduinoJoystickLibrary

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  An Arduino library that adds one or more joysticks to the list of HID devices an Arduino Leonardo or Arduino Micro can support.

Yep, my bad. I got confused with the numbers. Also, did some googling and from what I can see here even though you can map more than 32 buttons the default Windows joystick tester won't display them.

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