Video Game controllers

Educators
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I’d like to use cheap video game controllers like joysticks as external controllers for my limited school budget. I’ve read the section in the tutorial, but still don’t understand how I would use non-MIDI external controllers. Somehow I would need to change the joystick data coming from the USB into a MIDI signal and then send that to SonicPi? I would need to do this on both Macs and PCs.
Thanks for any advice!

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I’ve used a ps3 controller with Sonic Pi see Rpi GPIO hardware as inputs/controllers - #3 by robin.newman
It may need updating as is an old project.
In some of the OSC calls and OSC port now 4560

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Thanks Robin! I’ll take a look into your project.