Sending joystick info from a PC to arduino

Development Boards Arduino
1

Hi guys, i’m really new to programming, so can you please help me out? I want to read the X and Y axis values from my USB joystick on my PC and send that data over XBee to my Arduino Uno. I’m open to any language that can do this efficiently.

Some info that may or may not help:

I’m running windows 7.

The data is gonna be used to control the PWM pins.

If you need to know more, just ask me and i’ll tell you everything you want to know about my project.

thanks,

Corey

2

Look at what that guy was doing:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1313076

A Java program on the PC is reading the joystick and sending data over a serial port to the Arduino (you’lll have o rewrite the Ardiuno code anyway).

You can use one of the XBee USB Explorer breakouts to connect an XBee to the PC side.