ETP wrote: > I have a little robot project I'm programming in python using the > Lynxmotion SSC-32 servo controller via serial. I'd like to use a USB > game controller (PS2 style) to control the robot. > > I've read a number of threads about the difficulty of using USB > without extensive understanding of the way it works, but a few have > stated that HID is different somehow. I definitely do not have any > USB knowledge, and I don't care to get into that. However, if USB-HID > is much simpler I would love to learn. > > I have the python extensions for windows: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018 > but I haven't found any documentation on how to implement HID in > python. Can anyone give me some examples or links?
You seem to misunderstand HID. HID is a protocol over USB (and Bluetooth I believe) that will create user input device events which are mapped to your OS input layer. That means that whenever you e.g. attach a keyboard device, it's keyboard events will generate key-strokes on screen. There are various kinds of HID-devices, and gamepads/joysticks generate certain events. So you need to look up you OS game device API and use that. Then attaching any compliant HID-device should work. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
