Adafruit Thumbstick Trinkey - USB Key with miniature joystick

Coming soon!

We love these mini analog thumbsticks, they're just like the controls on the PSP Vita, and we thought it would be useful and fun to have them as an input to your computer. Thanks to Trinkey technology (a.k.a a ATSAM21E18) we can make the Adafruit Thumbstick Trinkey it's a tiny little mouse that plugs into any computer with a USB A jack. Handy when you just need a little pointer but don't want to haul a full mouse around.

We've pre-programmed this board with an Arduino sketch so it's ready to go out-of-the box: plug it into a USB A port to get a small X-Y analog thumbstick that can act as an HID input. There's two tactile switches that will act as button 1 and 2 on a mouse, and a dual DIP switch on the bottom to set the rotation so that up is up. 

The code is fully open source, and you can run Arduino or CircuitPython code easily so you can update or adapt the design to be any sort of unique input: perhaps you want it to act as a MIDI pitch-bend input, or volume up-down media controller, or just send the coordinates over serial? What ever you wish! There's also a bonus RGB neopixel on the bottom that can provide casual & colorful under-lighting.