Is it possible to get button control from a usb numeric keypad? Connected to usb 3 on DS? I have tried but was unsuccessful, we are trying program the keypad to move our arm.
The DS only recognizes game controllers, not numeric keypads.
However, this does provide an interesting idea to request for additional functionality for the 2010 DS - the inclusion of a standard HID driver, which would allow for USB mouse and keyboard input.
Also, as a semi-amusing aside, has anyone tested to see if the USB ports will still supply +5v, even if they can not identify the attached device? If so, I wonder who would be the first to put something like this in as part of their driver station.
The DS already has a driver for it. Presumably all that would need to change would be for the /ds60x/bin/mgr_joysx binary on the DS to be written in a way to recognize it as input.
Additionally, the DS kernel was not compiled with support for the popular Xbox 360 joysticks (CONFIG_JOYSTICK_XPAD is not set in the kernel config). I wonder if they ever tried turning this on - I suspect it would work out of the box and enable 360 joystick support which would have made a lot of people happy.