[sprite_tm]’s back with one of his excellent Atmel projects. This time he decided to turn an original XBox controller (cause he likes ‘em) into a standard USB HID device. He gutted the custom USB chip that Microsoft installed and replaced it with an Atmel ATMega88. The ATMega required a few changes to the board, but nothing too off the wall.
@twistedsymphony
As he says on the first page, his motivation for doing it is that the driver, whilst stable and support on linux, can be almost impossible to install on Vista due to it’s driver signing. So he wanted to turn it into a generic HID device to make it easier to use.
Andy
Posted at 8:02 am on Jul 17th, 2008 by Andy
Yes, OR you could actually READ the damn article and find out WHY he did not use the driver.
Posted at 8:35 am on Jul 17th, 2008 by mace
He’s gotcha there dude.
The project is explained on page 1
Posted at 10:12 am on Jul 17th, 2008 by strider_mt2k
its not impossible, you just have to install as an admin, only computer challenged people have trouble with it.. on the other hand only computer challenged people install Vista to play games
Posted at 3:20 am on Jul 18th, 2008 by rasz
Hello! Anyone has tried to do opposite thing?
I explain: it’s possible to use an usb pc joystick on xbox?
I built an Atmega8 based usb joystick (found via hackaday,thanks!), but this device works on PC but is unrecognized by xbox.
Seems Xbox O.S. problem. It is possible to play with .hex code of Atmega8-16 so that at xbox S.O. appear as a genuine controller?
In this manner I can connect to xbox a real arcade joystick!
Thanks in advance anyone!
Posted at 12:29 pm on Jul 18th, 2008 by enzo
enzo yes it is possible to rewrite atmega hid firmware to act like an Xbox pad
Posted at 1:40 am on Jul 19th, 2008 by rasz
rasz: Oh thanks!
You experience that?
Can you tell a bit more?
Some link?
Thanks a lot!
Posted at 1:39 pm on Jul 20th, 2008 by enzo
@enzo:
UPCB already has support for Xbox consoles directly. It’s for 18LF4550 PIC’s, but it should be easy to port it to atmel chips as long as they support full speed USB (youll need an atmel with built in USB hardware; the AVR-USB code is low speed only)
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seems like a lot of work when he could have just installed a driver on his PC.
http://redcl0ud.com/xbcd.html
Posted at 7:04 am on Jul 17th, 2008 by twistedsymphony