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The XBOX 360 Controller
With the need for drivers, there was no way to roll my own solution. Asking everyone to put their 64-bit version of windows into test mode just to use this controller seemed a little insane. My only...
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Wiring up the TeensyLC
Above is a crude drawing of the pin-out used for this fight stick. The board is based on active low inputs, so we switch them to ground. I used all three grounds available as thru-hole. I had to create...
View ArticleThe Code
Now that we have defined the device and prepared responses for any queries from the PC, the only two things we have left to do is the code for our inputs and the code for our LED patterns. We use two...
View ArticleWrapping it all up!
We finally did it! We have created a custom USB device on the TeensyLC and allowed it to send the packets expected from a X360 controller. We even went as far as to allow it to receive LED commands...
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Introduction to the Project
The idea for this project came up when discussing the release of Mortal Kombat X. The guys at Mechanical Squid Factory (our gaming group) decided they wanted to branch out into the competitive fighting...
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Dinput VS Xinput
There is likely to be quite a few misconceptions and errors in this area of my understanding. I am not a game developer and actually do very minimal PC application development. Originally games used a...
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Defining the Xinput USB Device
Teensyduino is set up to define USB devices through the usb_desc.h file. So we arae going to want to add the following code to this file:#elif defined(USB_XINPUT) #define DEVICE_CLASS 0xFF #define...
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Adding Xinput to USB Menu
This was where the project took an evil turn. It took all of 15 minutes to load up the joystick example and fill it with my own code. The complications came when trying to create a device not...
View ArticleCreating an Xinput Library for Teensyduino
Recently Jeremy Williams from Tested! has been working on his very own controller. This one emulated another classic arcade giant, the pinball machine. Running into the same issues I experienced...
View ArticlePython script to edit serial numbers in hex files.
INTRODUCTIONScripting is something that helps engineers of all types (software/test/electrical/etc). It truly can be done in just about any language you are familiar with, but I do feel that some...
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