Adafruit
Analog Mini Thumbstick Breakout Board
A neat little breakout board designed for mounting a PSP-style mini thumbstick to your project. The board features panel-mount friendly hole placement and du...
A neat little breakout board designed for mounting a PSP-style mini thumbstick to your project. The board features panel-mount friendly hole placement and dual-sided headers for mechanical stability when connected to a breadboard or perfboard.
Since the thumbstick is analog, you'll need two analog reading pins on your microcontroller to determine X and Y position. Soldering a thumbstick to the board is straightforward and takes about a minute.
Key Features
- Panel-Mount Design – Mounting holes positioned for easy enclosure attachment
- Dual-Sided Headers – Headers on both sides for mechanical stability
- 0.1" Pin Spacing – Breadboard and perfboard compatible
- Simple Soldering – Quick thumbstick attachment, takes about a minute
Specifications
- Header – 4-pin, 0.1" (2.54mm) spacing
- Output – 2 analog channels (X and Y)
Package Contents
- 1× Analog Mini Thumbstick Breakout Board
- 1× 8-pin 0.1" male header
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- breakout
- A breakout is a small circuit board that makes a tiny or hard-to-solder component easier to connect to with standard pins. It matters because this OLED module can be wired into a microcontroller project without needing to solder directly to the display’s fine contacts.
- Headers
- Rows of metal pins used to plug a module into a breadboard or connect it with jumper wires. Pre-soldered headers make the module easier to use straight away without needing to solder the pins yourself.
- microcontroller
- A microcontroller is a small computer on a chip that runs your program and controls connected inputs and outputs. For this product, it is the part that reads buttons and sensors, drives the display and speaker, and communicates over Bluetooth.
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