PlayStation Controller Interface

Jon Williams

Here's a program I developed for my January Nuts & Volts column that uses the SX to act as an interface between a BASIC Stamp and a PlayStation game controller.· Since there are extra pins on the SX28 I use them as a spare I/O port for the BASIC Stamp.

If anyone actually has a PlayStation (I don't)·and can connect connect a logic analyzer to the Attention (for triggering), Clock, Command, and Data lines I would love to know the exchange that sets up and activates the controller motors (in the Dual Shock controllers).· There's a lot of incomplete information floating around the 'net and none of it lead me to a version of my program that would me activate the motors.

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax

Post Edited (Jon Williams (Parallax)) : 11/26/2005 10:13:18 PM GMT

Clock Loop

I have a PS one, but don't have a logic analyzer, do you think I can record the data via my "audio recorder? (i have used it before to view shiftout, and it worked great) how fast is the communication?

Jon Williams

I really think a decent multi-channel logic analyzer is required to do this -- that one that fits under a BASIC Stamp on a BOE would probably work (I don't have USB2 on my PC so I don't use that one).

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax