Touchpad Joystick

The Touchpad Joystick is a joystick that is activated by touch. This device is a more affordable option to many commercial joysticks and trackpads on the market. This is a USB joystick that can be plugged into either the left, or right USB joystick of the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

The Touchpad Joystick is comprised of a commercially available capacitive touch sensor (Cirque Capacitive Touch Sensor 35 mm) that is mounted in a 3d printed enclosure.

This Joystick was designed by Ron Nelson.

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• https://www.makersmakingchange.com/s/product/touchpad-joystick/](https://www.makersmakingchange.com/s/product/touchpad-joystick/01tJR000000Be3lYAC

Getting Started

1. Order the Off-The-Shelf Components

The Bill of Materials lists all of the parts and components required to build the Touchpad Joystick. The electronic components may be available locally, but will probably need to be ordered online.

2. Print the 3D Printable components

Print the components for the switch tester case and choose an option for the case.

All of the files and individual print files can be in the /Build_Files/3D_Printing_Files folder.

3. Assemble the Touchpad Joystick

Reference the assembly guide for the tools and steps required to build each portion.

Files

Documentation

Document	Version	Link
Design Rationale	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_Design_Rationale
Bill of Materials	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_BOM
Assembly Guide	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_Assembly_Guide
Maker Checklist	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_Checklist
User Quick Guide	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_User_Quick_Guide
Changelog	1.0	Touchpad_Joystick_Changelog

Build Files

• 3D Printing Files

License

Everything needed or used to design, make, test, or prepare the Touchpad Joystick is licensed under the CERN 2.0 Weakly Reciprocal license https://ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-2 (CERN-OHL-W).

All software is under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

Accompanying material such as instruction manuals, videos, and other copyrightable works that are useful but not necessary to design, make, test, or prepare the Touchpad Joystick are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Attribution

• The original design was created by Ron Nelson under an MIT License
• Documentation by Neil Squire Society / Makers making Change
• The documentation template was created by Neil Squire / Makers Making Change and is used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. It is available at the following link: https://github.com/makersmakingchange/OpenAT-Template

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