PS3 Controller Raspberry Pi NodeJS

A basic example of interfacing a PS3 controller on a Raspberry Pi using NodeJS.

Prerequisites

1. Have a PS3 controller paired

2. Have NodeJS installed

Note: at the moment of writing it doesn't work yet with NodeJS 10, use latest version of 9 instead (I used 9.9.0).

3. Packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install joystick -y

Wiring

Install

npm i

Usage

sudo node .

We need to use sudo because we can't communicate with the GPIO otherwise, there's ways around this but out of scope.