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IBM PCjr Joystick Breakout Board

Breadboard friendly breakout board for the classic IBM PCjr two axis analog joystick

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This project was created on 06/06/2019 and last updated 7 years ago.

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The project is to create a simple breadboard friendly breakout board for the classic IBM PCjr two axis and two button analog joystick.

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pcjr-joystick-reva.pdf

Eagle CAD Design Files - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. CC-BY-NC 4.0, Copyright (C) 2019, David Anders. All Rights Reserved

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  • Free Breakout Board with Purchase of Joystick!

    Dave's Dev Lab • 07/22/2019 at 04:16 • 0 comments

    Get your Joystick and Breakout Board at BGMicro.com

  • Joystick and Breakout Now Available!

    Dave's Dev Lab • 07/18/2019 at 17:17 • 0 comments

    B.G.Micro now has both the Breakout Board and original IBM PCjr Joystick in stock! The joysticks are manufactured by Kraft and with the exception of the connector are the same joysticks available for Apple ][, Tandy Color Computer, and many more! This breakout board  lets you experiment with interfacing to the joystick without cutting off the cable end. you can create adapters to other computers or interface to an Arduino!

  • Attention Hackers: Free Hardware!

    Dave's Dev Lab • 06/08/2019 at 19:17 • 0 comments

    Hey Hackers! I have a limited amount of free hardware for developers who are interested in hacking around with a classic analog joystick! If you are interested in getting this thing working with Arduino, some old school CPU, or hacking into a retro PC, I'll send you some free hardware as long as you post the info as a hackaday.io project! one example of a project would be to get this joystick working with the arduino library project documented here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-LeonardoMicro-as-Game-ControllerJoystick/

    email me at danders.dev@gmail.com if you are interested!

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ghazbansst wrote 09/20/2021 at 15:36 • point

Did anyone get an extra one of these adaptors when they were available?  I would love to have one for my CoCoPi project.

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danjovic wrote 04/15/2020 at 17:05 • point

Tkanks, I would appreciate that but I think it's better wait for this covid situation to be behind us, what do you think? Neverthrless I did the testing using an old PC analog joystick that I had in my parts bin (please check my pages).

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danjovic wrote 04/15/2020 at 02:36 • point

Hi Dave, I am working on a very cheap USB-to PC Joystick adapter using Digispark. Stay tuned!

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 04/15/2020 at 02:41 • point

would you like a joystick to work with?

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