How the heck do you use an XBOX360 controller with the chicklet??

[dcbrown]

Not my choice, its student and driver choice. I'm just making the options available for them to choose from. Personally I'd never use the chicklet/controller combo but it isn't my choice and I really don't care what decision they make as long as it works for them.

Everyone is saying Xbox 360 controller - it must be a Microsoft Xbox 360 controller. I tried the game shark one, which works fine on an xbox 360 and is an xbox 360 controller, on the chicklet just to prove it had to be a microsoft one. I expect the inquiry or whatever string back from the device is being used to differentiate between supported/non-supported.

The joystick movement on the controller had a repeated jump of 4 -> 16 -> 24 -> ... with nothing inbetween. This is not the chicklet's problem obviously. However, of the three people who tried, none of us with the controller we had could hit anything between 4/16/24 stops no matter how much we tried or how slow we worked.

So far, the student have xbox 360 controllers for the team to try. No one has or has volunteered yet to bring in a Logitech gamepad device to try out.

[Mike Copioli]

Originally Posted by dcbrown

The joystick movement on the controller had a repeated jump of 4 -> 16 -> 24 -> ... with nothing inbetween.

Well the repetitive values could be coincidence, it's probably your controller. Think about this.

The joys on the controller have about 1 inch of travel from the tallest point. the total range is about 254 (+ or - 127) 1"/254 = .004" per data tick.

Value Inches of movement

4 .016"

16 .064"

24 .096"

No human can possibly make movements that precise.

You should try some of the joysticks that are supported. The Logitech attack 3 is very smooth, and provides greater physical resistance against movement.