Comments on: Basic Stamp: A quick guide on using a legacy joystick

By: firestorm_v1

firestorm_v1 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:44:03 +0000

That’s a good question. I’m not too sure I’m following, but are you attempting to keep the USB hardware intact? If so, I’m not sure that the BS2 sensing and the USB hardware would be compatible as most USB compatible microcontrollers use a 3.3v logic voltage instead of the Basic Stamp’s 5V logic voltage. Additionally, the BS2 can not do USB host support natively, it would definitely require cracking the case open and fiddling around with the wiring.

I believe that there are some AVR’s and PICs that support USB host mode directly so if you’re handy with some C programming, you may be able to write a basic USB host driver necessary to read the triggers that you’re looking for.

Good luck!
FIRESTORM_v1

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:53:31 +0000

heres a question for you….I have an old USB joystick and I have some software that allows me to design projects that can sense if a fire button is pressed.

Since this is a just a simple momentary switch arrangement of 2 states ( on / off )….im just wondering here…what simple (sensors) could I use to trigger this state and have my software read it? – obviously I cant use things like an RPM meter or other thing that is a variable..but something that simply senses an on or off state that replaces my finger on the fire button. – Any ideas?

Thanks in advance guys.

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By: foxcore

foxcore — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:13:34 +0000

hahaha…. Chugging motion…

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