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Unread 05-12-2003, 11:27
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Re: joysticks

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Originally Posted by Drew Hopman
It is the same all you have to do is cut the wire and soder it to another usb cable that has been cut. All the cables meet up and there is one extra from the controller. Now my question is how to make it go from usb to game port or if we could use a serial connection. I am not sure if you could rerout it through the serial. If you have any ideas that would be great. How would you imput the usb into edu bot?
Drew Hopman

Well, to elaborate on what Rick said above, you would need to actually write code to impliment the USB protocol (not easy). Therefore you could hook it directly to the digital IO pins on the Edubot,(or the 2004-RC), But you could not connect it to the OI.

Though you could always buy a normal PC gamepad and use that. That would have basically all the features you would have in a X-Box controller.