wraggster
April 20th, 2012, 23:49
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This wiring nightmare lets [H. Smeitink] map all the buttons from an Xbox 360 controller to his PC (http://www.hmsprojects.com/xboxbypc.html). It gives him the ability to push control input from his PC to the console. But it goes a step further than that because it actually acts as a pass-through device. He connected a wired controller to the computer and uses a program he wrote to translate those inputs and send them to the hacked controller.
The software is written in C#. It’s got a recording function that lets him save the keypress data from the wired controller while it’s sent to the Xbox in real time. When he finds a combination that he uses frequently he plucks out those commands, sets them up as a macro, and assigns one of the buttons to execute it. The controller hack uses one transistor for each button, and a PIC 18F4550 which controls them and provides USB connectivity with the PC.
This isn’t one nice package like some integrated rapid-fire and macro solutions (http://hackaday.com/2012/02/16/rapid-fire-update-brings-many-new-features/) we’ve seen. But it certainly opens up a lot more possibilities. See for yourself in the clip after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/20/computer-control-for-your-xbox-controller/
This wiring nightmare lets [H. Smeitink] map all the buttons from an Xbox 360 controller to his PC (http://www.hmsprojects.com/xboxbypc.html). It gives him the ability to push control input from his PC to the console. But it goes a step further than that because it actually acts as a pass-through device. He connected a wired controller to the computer and uses a program he wrote to translate those inputs and send them to the hacked controller.
The software is written in C#. It’s got a recording function that lets him save the keypress data from the wired controller while it’s sent to the Xbox in real time. When he finds a combination that he uses frequently he plucks out those commands, sets them up as a macro, and assigns one of the buttons to execute it. The controller hack uses one transistor for each button, and a PIC 18F4550 which controls them and provides USB connectivity with the PC.
This isn’t one nice package like some integrated rapid-fire and macro solutions (http://hackaday.com/2012/02/16/rapid-fire-update-brings-many-new-features/) we’ve seen. But it certainly opens up a lot more possibilities. See for yourself in the clip after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/20/computer-control-for-your-xbox-controller/