The future of PSticks?

[noodalls]

PM from a friend on TZ

I made another one..this time it's much much more simple than soldering a stick

All you need is this
a bluetooth dongle with the csr chipset (very cheap)
http://shop.prits.at/index.php?a=78334

and a 2gb pen stick

and than
http://diy-machine.blogspot.com/201...r-tutorial.html

there is a macro function
the code should be changed like yours because now it goes like this

ewgf=

MACRO (any key)
KEYDOWN f
DELAY (in ms (16.666) i'll just write xx)
KEYUP f
DELAY xx
KEYDOWN d
DELAY xx
KEYDOWN f
KEYDOWN 2
DELAY xx
KEYUP d
KEYUP f
KEYUP 2


you can also play shooters with keyboard and mouse

Haven't had a chance to look into this yet, but thought I would share this with everyone here. If it works as proposed, it would be a significantly cheap and easy way to send commands to the PS3 for testing/combos/training/whatever.

If someone gets the chance to look into it, let us know how useful it actually is.

[Rufus]

Well, the second link is broken, so I can't really tell.

[noodalls]

http://diy-machine.blogspot.com/2010/05 ... orial.html

The future had to wait a day.

[error1]

http://diy-machine.blogspot.com/

so I got a ps3 and decided to try this out. It works really really good. I didn't even need to buy anything, it worked with the internal bluetooth in my old laptop. Really easy to setup. Only a couple of disadvantages.
It's ubuntu linux only right now, that's not a big deal because it's a pretty fast os and you can boot it off a flash drive or run it in a vm.
But it means I can't easily run autoit and recording software that is windows only. autokey looks like a substitute for autoit but I haven't had a chance to test it yet http://code.google.com/p/autokey/, or this one might be easier for me to use http://www.ironahk.net/

It does have a built in keyboard macro feature, that I tested a little and seems to work fine. Apparently it's minimum delay is 50ms, and that works for a lot of stuff but you really need 10ms delays to do karas and high level stuff.

anyway, as it is now it seems to be a viable alternative to a programmable controller and a windows version is in the works.

[Rufus]

Since the code for the setup is readily available, it might make sense to look into changing that instead.

[noodalls]

So I finally decided to give this a go last night.

http://blog.gimx.fr/

Putting it together took about 3 minutes, hooking up a tweensy 2.0 ++ to a usb-serial converter that I bought on ebay. 3 wires all on bread boards.

Setup took a bit longer, but it wasn't long before I was controlling the ps3 using my keyboard.

Unfortunately it didn't seem to accept inputs from automacro. I don't know if this is an emulation within emulation issue or what the problem is.

Parts cost <$30, I think if you bought an older tweensy it would be a lot less than that.

[error1]

Neat he has a windows version now. It's got it's own macro thing, wasn't too accurate when I tried it, don't know if it's better now.

[noodalls]

Got a chance to try it out a bit more. Turns out I had two macros both defining F1, so it was crashing at 11pm last night, at which point I went to bed.

Able to program EWGF to one button after just a little effort. Didn't record 60fps to check exactly what the inputs were, but seemed reasonably reliable. Occasionaly f,df+2 instead of f,N,df+2.

http://youtu.be/mTl5PNUb318

http://blog.gimx.fr/ Software is programmed by Matlo, still work in progress but very impressive.
1P only for Windows, via USB connection.
2P support through linux via Bluetooth.

If Namco adds command capture support for TTT2 then 1P only shouldn't be as much of an issue.

Minimum cost would be about
http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html $16
http://www.ebay.com CP2102 $3
Breadboard/wiring $not much

Macro support via text file.