my son has a PS4 and I want to build gaming chair / steering wheel / pedals / etc together with him as a father-son project. Now I do use google and I found some pretty nitfy diy gamings stuff with an Arduino board basis, but most if not all hook up to a PC, in which a special program is ran to interprete the Adruino signals and tune the inputs / outputs (feedback). When I would build that, hook it up to the PS4, I would not have the controller software and the thing would not work I guess. Googling on, I find a ton of projects controlling something Arduino-based with a PS4 controller. But so far, I have not found anything Arduino-based controlling the PS4.
Simple question: are there any projects available already, controlling a PS4 from any Arduino board?
I'm not sure about PS4, but usually USB controllers and other USB peripherals uses one of the prebuild official USB protocol classes, so you shouldn't need special host software if you want to emulate one of the standard USB classes with Arduino (32U4 MCU).
Arduino IDE already has some of these classes like "keyboard" and "mouse", I'm sure there are libraries for other types also.
If you really want to dig deep in to USB stuff I would recommend reading "USB Complete: The Developer's Guide", in it you will find all available official device classes, but let me tell you – it's not easy stuff...
Hi, I am also inspired to work on a project exactly like yours, but with nfs games. I was thinking of using the arduino micro with keyboard library enabled to emulate the keyboard cursor editing keys.