Quadstick FPS, User Manual

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Introduction
The Quadstick is a mouth operated joystick which can emulate a Gamepad, Mouse or Keyboard
via USB and Bluetooth connections to a Game Console, PC, Mac, or Android device.
The Quadstick’s configuration scheme is built around four concepts: Inputs, Outputs,
Connections and Spreadsheets:
Inputs
The mouthpiece has three sip/puff sensors and a lip position sensor attached to the joystick
gimbals. On the right side of the joystick mouthpiece is a fourth sip/puff sensor tube that is used
to control the overall operation of the Quadstick. The back of the device has connections for the
lip position sensor, and external inputs.
The joystick position, sip/puff/lip sensors and
optional external switches are used to generate
Input signals to the Quadstick which are then
used to transmit Output commands to the Host
device (game console, PC, etc) over the USB
or Bluetooth connection. The sip/puff pressure
sensors, joystick and lip position sensors are all
analog sensors.
In addition to its own hardware inputs, the
Quadstick can use a PC’s mouse, an UltraStik
360, or a Tobii Eyegaze device, via the Quadstick Manager Program, as a second joystick.
Outputs
The Quadstick emulates Gamepad, Mouse
and Keyboard devices, and each button,
key, joystick or movement these devices
can send to a game console or PC become
Outputs and commands controlled by the
Input sensors.
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