Hello everyone, I am interested in creating my own game controller. I know that there are some Arduinos which support the game controller creation (like the Arduino Esplora, the Leonardo or the pro micro), but I think it would be interesting to find a new microcontroller (since I know the Arduino series quite good, I think). I read that I need USB HID support and thus native USB (so no V-USB or stuff like that). I know that the Atmega32U4 supports native USB, but are there others who support native USB and are well documented? And if you have general advice on this topic, feel free to contribute! Kind regards from Germany Max Frank
Max Frank wrote: > I read that I need USB HID support and thus native USB (so no V-USB or > stuff like that). You might need to clean your glasses (or choose better lecture). V-USB should (at least in theory) support HID, as this only needs Interrupt endpoint(s). In fact, may game controllers are USB low speed devices.
Hey. Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed, I did not read that I need native USB, but I read that there are some issues with V-USB. This is why I thought that it could be better to use native USB.
Max Frank wrote: > Atmega32U4 supports native USB These are much cheaper and much faster and HID demo is included: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/8-bit/efm8-universal-bee/Pages/efm8-universal-bee.aspx Even these ARM are cheaper and even have built-in ROM drivers for HID: http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/lpc-arm-cortex-m-mcus/lpc-cortex-m3/lpc1300-series:MC_1403790687302
Thank you, Lothar. I will definitely check them out. Does anyone know how the "usual" gamecontroller do this? Do they have custom designed microcontrollers? Or well known ones?
I have seen "simple" controllers with Chinese 8051 e.g. STC and complex ones usually ARM e.g. STM32: https://de.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+Move+Controller+Teardown/3596
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