Pan tilt control with an Xbox controller: Intro

As we have seen, we can use Processing to send different values to the Arduino, depending in the previous case of the mouse, but we can also use many kind of devices.

As I have a Xbox 360, I decided to use the controller through Processing and the Arduino, to control a pan tilt.

The Pan tilt:

I have chose a very simple and cheap pan tilt that I have purchase on SparkFun.com

This one is made of 2 pieces of metal assembled with screws, and controlled with 2 servos.

A picture:

As demonstrated earlier, it is very easy to drive a servo with the Arduino, so driving 2 servos should be easy too.