Comments on: Autonomous Game Controllers

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:37:20 +0000

Yeah — I think that’s exactly what I’d try and do. I have a couple of them lying around. It will probably work — although who knows? I’m mucking with so much of an unpublished protocol and just assuming it’ll work is probably safe, but..

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:51:27 +0000

Awesome! I am excited to see that. Couldn’t you just use a ps2 to ps3 converter?

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:53:21 +0000

In reply to Matthew. I'll have to get back to this one at some point. There's nothing especially complicated about the schematic — it's a standard Propeller project, so the Propeller and it's EEPROM, and then I put a voltage regulator and a level shifter for the I2C communication..that's it. The rest is done in hairball firmware on the Propeller to emulate a Playstation controller and become an I2C device that the Arduino can talk to..the other funny bit is getting Playstation-type connectors, which are ugly and big. I should look into getting it to work with a PS3, too.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:15 +0000

That is awesome! Like Jordan, I would like to see the parallax schematic for this. Man, this thing on Street fighter 4 would be awesome for learning to counter those hard to defeat moves.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:19:53 +0000

This looks really interesting! As an Arduino enthusiast I would love to see your “dongle” schematic. I can think of a bunch of awesome stuff that could be done with this.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:55:23 +0000

In reply to OneSwitch. Sure, it is possible. I'm not entirely sure what the set up would be, though? The design of the components are so that you can make something other than a Playstation controller look like it is in fact a Playstation controller. It requires some additional hardware and firmware of course. But, for example, output from a normal computer could talk to this device which would then talk to the Playstation console. Something like this.

By: OneSwitch

OneSwitch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:33:06 +0000

This has got some very exciting possibilities for disabled people:

http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-step-closer.html

Do you think it’s possible?

Barrie
OneSwitch.org.uk

By: ranjit

ranjit — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:08:32 +0000

Really, the thing to do here is to remove the brain from a Roomba and wire it into Katamari Damacy. It’s the Brain-in-a-Vat experiment brought from philosophy to the real world!

By: Yay! Cheats for consoles...

Yay! Cheats for consoles... — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:24:53 +0000

Should be fun to use with fighting games to get the combos right =) Would love a video of that too ^^

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:52:35 +0000

Hey, that’s a really good idea. I hadn’t yet integrated rumble messages from the console into the whole deal, but I should do that. Thanks for the suggestion!