I have thought of another way. Dougs program seems to take the input from the controller and then send to the PC on the tank and convert to esc commands. You could bypass that by making a PC in the tank and installing the software that doug uses and the drivers for the 360 controller for PC and USB adapter for using a wireless 360 pad on a pc and having the controller go directly to the tanks computer. Only get a few meters range but might work. If dougs about he might know abit more about that method. I reckon ps2 controller may be better suited for c6c as their cheaper to replace than the 360 pads. I can get ps2 wireless locally for £5 and wired 360 for £20. Wireless £30+. And the wired xbox controller wont need hacking to use USB as thats the interface for the 360 ones anyway. The old xbox ones are harder to come by. I have 2 wireless 360 ones and 1 wired one. Although microsoft advertise one as being for windows the only difference is one comes with the driver software for PC and the more expensive wireless for windows has a usb dongle for a normal 360 wireless controller aswell
On Oct 8, 1:32 pm, Travis Butterfield <[email protected]> wrote: > ok I will attempt to try that when I get to taht part, thank you > > --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Gregory Pwneror <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Gregory Pwneror <[email protected]> > Subject: [TANKS] Re: The controller thingy > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 1:04 AM > > The other way is to somehow get hold of Doug Conn and ask him how he did it > and for his software. > > -Gregory > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Gregory Pwneror <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's 2 methods I can think of to do that. > > 1. > The c6c's heart is a PIC micro-controller. You could potentially just > completely rewrite the code in the PIC to work for an X-box. > > 2. > You could use a small computer, like a nano or pico-itx and put the X-box > controller through that by hacking the controller to use USB. You'd then > write a computer program to imitate the output of a PS2 controller based on > the input from the X-Box one. You'd route the output through the serial or > parallel port of the computer. > > Both of these approaches require computer programming. I would give it a go, > or give it to someone else to have a go, but I don't have an X-Box controller > handy. You can find data sheets on the internet about the protocols of a PS2 > controller. > > -Gregory > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Sgt.A.Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could the xbox and ps2 controllers be hacked together to get best of > both ie xbox quality and c6c connectivity??? > > On Oct 7, 1:13 am, Gregory Pwneror <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah, but sometimes the usb controllers are more expensive, or you could > > hack the controller to have both USB and Xbox > > > -Gregory > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Adams, Kevin > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > They sell Xbox controllers with USB plugs. No hacking required. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > > > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gregory Pwneror > > > *Sent:* Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:46 PM > > > *To:* [email protected] > > > *Subject:* [TANKS] Re: The controller thingy > > > > You could do it with a PIC theoretically, but you need to make sure that > > > the PIC is fast enough and has enough ROM for the program. I've done a bit > > > of looking at X-Box controllers myself, it turns out that they are > > > basically > > > USB devices with a different plug, if you chop off the existing one and > > > add > > > on a USB, Windows will detect it as a joystick, what Doug will have done > > > is > > > then make output based off that, it's somewhat easier that using a PS2 > > > controller. If you use a cheap computer like a mini-itx, it would be sort > > > of > > > expensive, but not overly.The cheapest mini-itx I could find is 70 pounds, > > > here:http://www.mini-itx.com/store/ > > > You would need to program your own code for it though, as no-one has > > > released there own I believe. > > > > -Gregory > > > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Sgt.A.Johnson < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > There may be cheaper ways to do it than dougs but im not sure of them. > > > > On 4 Oct, 08:17, Chris Malton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sadly, nobody has, as yet, interfaced an Xbox controller to a C6C. If > > > > you really want to know about Xbox controllers controlling tanks, the > > > > man who needs to speak up is Doug Conn. He's gone some elaborate > > > > computer-based route. Alternatively just find his tank on the website, > > > > and click the links - they have some good info. > > > > > Chris > > > > > Travis Butterfield wrote: > > > > > Would it work with an xbox 360 paddle as well as the ps2 ones? > > > > > > Sent from my iPod --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
