Completed 6 Axis PC Controller

You might remember the article of the in progress 6 Axis PC Controller, well it is now complete. This thing is very impressive, doesn’t look like the standard weekend DIY because of the complexity.

“My microcontroller doesn’t have built-in I2C or SPI, so I needed to implement one of my own. I also didn’t have interrupt pins available, meaning my solution needed to be based on polling. When all was said and done and optimized, I couldn’t detect edges faster than 16Khz. This is about ten times slower than the shift output available from the CUBLOC controller, so I couldn’t use that. I ended up writing my own shift-out routine in BASIC to get the data to the HID Portal. This could be avoided by using a microcontroller that has SPI or I2C built in already, but the JB8 is what I had on hand.

I use three signals to communicate with the CUBLOC controller. First, there is a CLK signal. The HID Portal detects a rising edge. At that point, it reads the value present on the DATA line. This is shifted into a register until a byte has been received, and the code moves to the next byte. The /RST line is a way to synchronize the start of each data packet in case there was any spurious input; when LOW it sets the packet and bit indexes to zero.”

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5 Responses to “Completed 6 Axis PC Controller”

Dave Says:
December 21st, 2006
Nice project, but why does everybody needs to tell their life story before they show the actual thing. Show it and shut up. :/
Andy Says:
December 21st, 2006
It’s a neat concept. I don’t think someone using this controller would have any chance against someone using a traditional joystick however.

I’m kinda curious why it’s considered a “6-axis” controller? It has a 3-axis accelerometer. According to the wiring diagram only two of the axis are connected…
Fake Says:
December 21st, 2006
My main complaint is the idiot camera man, my god the less he talks the better. He was worse in the first clip.
Brian Says:
January 2nd, 2007
I have always wanted to try one of these flight sim games in an hacked Orbitron where each axis could be controled by the sim. Dive and you dive, go straight up and so do you. Dive down left or right and hold on!
Hacked Gadgets » Blog Archive » Xbox 360 Tilt Controller Says:
January 22nd, 2007
[…] It takes lots of work to mod the Xbox 360 to act like a Wiimote. This Xbox 360 Tilt Controller reminds me of the this project. Great job! I look forward to the next hack… “After wanting to play around with an accelerometer for a long time, I finally thought of an idea that would warrant me purchasing one, modifying an Xbox 360 controller to make one of the analog sticks controlled by the tilting motion of the Xbox controller. […]