Both devices need to use SDA and SCL

[17maifra]

Hello,

I am a beginner with physical computing. I would like to connect a joystick to a raspberry pi and also connect a I2C LCD screen to the raspberry pi. For the project, I want to make a menu appear on the LCD screen and I want to use the joystick to navigate through the menu. The problem is that the joystick connects to an analog to digital chip and that chip connects to the pins 3 and 5 (SDA and SCL) on the raspberry pi, but the LCD screen also needs to connect to the raspberry pi on those same pins. I have included a fritzing diagram of the connection for the joystick and another for the connection of the LCD screen. Is there a way to connect both these devices on one raspberry pi?

[joan]

I2C is a bus. Multiple devices may be connected in parallel.

[alphanumeric]

As mentioned i2c is a shared bus, multiple devices are allowed, as long as no two devices share the dame i2c address.
If you open a terminal window and run sudo i2cdetect -y 1 it will display what addresses are in use for the devices connected.