Hey, I'm new to arduino and I want to try and use a arduino chip and the connecting cable to do live serial communication with windows. Overall I want to be able to send data from an N64 game controller to windows and have windows interpret that data as a game controller. I don't know exactly what this entails any insight will be helpful. Will i have to make drivers how does one go about something like this. Thanks in advance.
for this project i would choose the CUIduino. that one behaves like a real usb device and should be recognized by your OS as a normal HID (human Interface Device). so you don't need any drivers (which would be a PITA to write). should be fun to do.
http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/
(scroll down)
afaik you can program it like a normal arduino.
have windows interpret that data as a game controller
Your device must act as a USB HID (Human Interface Device). Making the Arduino do that is not straightforward, but there is a project called AVRUSB that might be useful. The Arduino's USB interface can't act as a HID, because it is a dedicated serial port (FTDI chip).
but there is a project called AVRUSB that might be useful.
http://code.rancidbacon.com/ProjectLogArduinoUSB
--Phil.
Are there any projects which would have some example drivers to check out?
I have my Sega Genesis controller hooked up to the arduino right now, and it detects the button presses correctly and outputs them to serial.
I was hoping I could do this too!
I know this is an Arduino forum, but what about Teensy, would this work? I am thinking CUIDuino would be much less cost effective. C code for Teensy: Simple USB debug messages only, for use with HID Listen .
-One last update. I decided to do this without Arduino, I just used PPJoy drivers Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos and both the SegaSNESkey and SegaNTPadXP circuits worked just fine, although in the past when I tried them they didn't work, possibly because of a different parallel port.