JoyWarrior - Control made simple

USB has been a sweeping success for input devices of all kinds. Especially the game controller type devices do benefit from this development as they are freed from the four-axes-plus-four-button limit of the old gameport. The ease of use of USB game controllers makes them attractive for industrial applications as well.

The JoyWarrior family is targeted to answer requirements from main stream game controllers to high value industrial input devices. The simplest of the JoyWarriors do support gamepad like controllers with switches for the directions, other variants support 3 or 4 analog axes with 8 or 10 bit resolution. A JoyWarrior that converts signals from a model RC teacher/student interface to joystick data is also available.

An interesting variant is a joystick/mouse hybrid controller that can work as a joystick or mouse.

The latest addition to the product line is JoyWarrior24F8 which comes on a module with a MEMS sensor, offering three axis acceleration sensing with a USB interface.

A number of off-the-shelf variants of JoyWarrior cover the most common applications. However due to the various requirements for game controllers these chips can cover only a certain bandwith of options. Customized controllers which fit specific applications are available on request (production quantities only).