Prop And USB joystick

Miles. k

I'm verry new to the propeller and i don't really know how USB works either.
So my question is, can you connect a Prop and a USB joystick (like a logitech attack3) if so, How?

Kind regards,
Miles. K

Post Edited (Miles. k) : 1/9/2010 11:59:14 PM GMT

VIRAND

I'm going to just guess that joystick is a "HID" USB device, and it depends if there is a HID USB driver for the Propeller yet.
Is there one?

If not, there are drivers for the Nintendo joysticks and the Hydra Propeller Game Development board,
and you can use a half-dollar shift register chip with old Atari/C64/Coleco or arcade machine joysticks,
or hacked (rewired) USB joysticks.

(In my opinion, USB is very very complicated for absolutely no good reason whatsoever,
and the chips for decoding USB always seem to cost more than the Propeller, unless perhaps it is HID USB.)

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BradC

There is a HID gadget for the propeller (pretend to be a keyboard/joystick/mouse) but no USB host.

If you were positive your joystick _only_ uses low speed usb, then it's possible at 96Mhz that you could write a basic USB host for it, but otherwise it's not gonna happen.

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StefanL38

So as you are really new to the propeller my opinion is:
If you don't use a superspecial designed, forcefeedback USB-joystick which is a MUST to use that one.

Buy a simple joystick with simple switches inside and use that one.

If you post a detailed description about your project the forum can give further advice

best regards

Stefan

hinv

Can someone point me to BradC's USB HID code/thread?