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Originally Posted by Mike Copioli
It would make sense that if we could support the PS3 controller, we can support an adapted PS2 controller. As is the case with the X-box and X-box 360. The question is: Is the PS3 HID? And the answer is: I don't know. If we had one, we could find out. I would imagine the device being similar to the X-box 360, which is a HUB. If this is the case, supporting it becomes more difficult. It can be done, but it would require a more drastic change in the firmware.
I assume you are refering to the wireless 360. The wired controller does not require batteries. We currently do not support the wireless 360 controller. We do however support the wireless Logitech Rumblepad 2.
Mike Copioli
CTRE
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Mike,
Before we saw your product, we were going to build our own. We intended to use something along the lines of a PIC24HJ128GP206(
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...me =en024685). Using the input ports on the microcontroller, we were going to make our own USB to Serial Xbox adapter. We learned the input pulse codes from this page (
http://euc.jp/periphs/xbox-controller.en.html) and we had an experienced programmer who was going to write the HID driver. After the inputs had been read they would output to the serial port we were going to add to the microcontroller. The point of it was to simplify the controls to be read by the robot control interface.
Now that your product is out, ours would be obsolete. But just for the record, would that have worked? Or did I spend hours drawing the schematics and designing the PCB, all to find out there was a major component I was missing? I know what I said before is confusing, but the just of it, is could you use a PIC24HJ128GP206 to do the same thing this adapter does?