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Unread 03-11-2004, 11:57
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Re: usb to db15

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
Use that USB-to-serial converter more and more team have to buy for their new laptops, and couple it to the serial port on an old EDU controller (or for example a PIC) with a program to interpret the XBox control commands and output via the analog and digital outputs on the EDU to the db15 gameport on the OI.
Unfortunately even that won't work. USB devices (such as USB-to-serial converter as well as the Xbox controller) need a USB host to communicate with - it is not possible for two USB client devices to communicate directly with each other. You'd need a microprocessor of some kind (one capable of acting as a host, which most smaller microcontrollers aren't) sitting in between the USB-to-serial and the Xbox controller.