Thread: Emulating a Joystick
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Re: Emulating a Joystick
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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
However, I could send the data to the FirstTouch board over something like SPI and totally avoid using USB HID, which would be amazing in this case because I'm getting frustrated trying to understand how HID descriptors work.
What I was referring to with the binary interface is that if you come up with some new data to send from som SPI or I2C source, there is no field going back to the robot for you to put that data into. You would have to replace, for instance, some of the analog input channels or something. In any case, it wouldn't be clean or supportable.

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
On another note... Anyone know why WPILib doesn't have sliders for HID devices?
Not sure what you're talking about here. Can you be more specific or elaborate? Are you using WPILib in LabVIEW, I guess? There is no HID on the robot, so are you talking about the dashboard? Please be more detailed.