Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-23 Thread William Hermans
For a USB HID, according to what I've read. You do not need to worry about all that. You just need to write or have an HID descriptor file. On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Theodore A. Roth wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:21 AM, David Glaser >

Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-23 Thread Theodore A. Roth
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:21 AM, David Glaser wrote: > William, thanks for the replies. >> > > It turns out that there are some more requirements that I did not state. > > 1. The joystick needs to be xbox360 compatible. The reason for this is > that most pc games

Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-23 Thread David Glaser
> > William, thanks for the replies. > It turns out that there are some more requirements that I did not state. 1. The joystick needs to be xbox360 compatible. The reason for this is that most pc games out there support the xbox360 controller. 2. The xbox360 controller has a lot of

Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-22 Thread William Hermans
Ug, I keep thinking of stuff *after* I post, heh. SO as an experiment there would be nothing wrong with using a beaglebone, or beagleboard for this purpose. However, if you're unfamiliar with Linux, and writing code for such. It could be beneficial to just start off with something else. Such as a

Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-22 Thread William Hermans
Additionally, the beaglebone does have at least one USB port that can run USB gadget devices on it, g_ether comes to mind( USB network interface ). Or you *could* just use the ethernet port. Or(again ! ) you could use a USB to UART cable. Such as the serial debug cable( and tty device on the

Re: [beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-22 Thread William Hermans
Searching the internet, you're likely going to find people who say this is not possible. At least where USB is concerned. Where the RasberryPI is concerned the USB ports on it are connected to a hub chip, which then runs in USB master mode. So . . . using HID USB descriptors is not possible in

[beagleboard] Making Beagleboard-xm appear as a joystick to pc host

2016-09-22 Thread David Glaser
I am working with some researchers in developing a game controller for people with disabilities of the hand. The idea is to explore different techniques for capturing gestures and converting them into joystick axis movement and button pushes. I was wondering if anyone has an example of how to