Comments on: Hook up PS3 controller to USB Host shield

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:19 +0000

Hi. I’m in my school’s robotics club and we’re following these guides to try and sync up a PS3 controller to an arduino board to control our robot. We have got the PS3LCD sketch to compile (finally) and now have absolutely no idea where to connect the pins? Is there a clear picture of how to connect it all up? We really need to know just what pins to plug into where from where and all that.

Any help would be incredibly appreciated. :)
Thanks so much and keep up the good work.
Sam.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:35:14 +0000

Thanks Mikey.
I have not used the X360 Controller, but as you say there appears to be a security device identified on one USB endpoint. This validates the game controller as “acceptable” to the Xbox. As this ssecurity does not seem to encrypt the other endpoints the game controller can be used on other devices as in the N64 controller below, however making an alternative controller for the XBox may not be possible.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:49:34 +0000

Good luck with RE’ing the 360 interface — there’s crypto involved, and it’s hard core.

By: Djhg2000

Djhg2000 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:52:36 +0000

This works out perfectly with a project I’ve been planning for a while; DS3 for X360 :D
All I’ve got to do is to find a suitable USB Client chip (for X360 controller emulation).

Now I REALLY want to get a hold of an Arduino + USB shield…

Looking forward to some sleepless nights of reverse-engineering the X360 controller interface :P