The purpose of the game is to strike a moving ball with an in-game paddle/bar. Worksheet – Sense HAT Pong | Raspberry Pi Learning Resources Sense HAT Pong | Raspberry Pi Learning Resources when trying to move further right from the right end of the matrix), it looks like there is no movement, but the same LED is turned off and turned on. Then it determines whether the coordinates are in the valid range (from 0 to 7), and in line 32 it lights up the destination LED (lines 23 to 30). When there is an input, the program first turns off the LED of the current position, as indicated in line 21. It starts by lighting up the upper left LED (X coordinate 0, Y coordinate 0) first. The orientation of the joystick is as shown in the picture below. This means that moving the joystick has exactly the same effect as pressing those keys on the Remember that the down direction is with the HDMI port facing downwards. The Sense HAT joystick is mapped to the four keyboard cursor keys, with the joystick middle-click being mapped to the Return key. THE JOYSTICK – Raspberry Pi Learning Resources We’ll also design games using the LED display. This time we’ll show how to receive input from this joystick on Python. It’s just like other joysticks on game console controllers (but small). The joystick handle is bit small (especially when you have a big hand) but it’s quite easy to control the handle. The joystick is located next to the Raspberry Pi logo on the Sense HAT, as you can see in the above picture.

Sense HAT, made especially for the Astro Pi mission, comes with built-in joystick as an input device. The Sense HAT Add-On Board For Raspberry Pi – 6 Types of Sensors The Sense HAT Add-On Board For Raspberry Pi – Operating The LED Display Please feel free to check back the previous articles:

In continuation of our Sense HAT series - Today we’ll be playing with the built-in joystick!

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