HID

Hello all,

Since recently getting a PS3 controller in the house, I decided to mess a bit with it this afternoon. The result is a macro that maps the incomprehensible values from the HID patch into something more readable. Attaching in case anyone could use it.

All in all, this is an amazingly expressive controller. All the main buttons have digital output as well as analog pressure sensing, and there are motion / tilt controls as well. I'm looking forward to hooking things up so I can play around with video mixing with the thing, even though the Xbox360 controller is a better fit for my hands, being bigger and all.

Anyway, the Bluetooth pairing went without hitch for me, though QC seems to not read the controller properly when the USB cable is attached, so I had to use it wirelessly. This is on Snow Leopard.

Lastly, can anyone help with making sense of the force outputs? Those are mapped to the outlets from the HID patch that reacted to motion, but I can't make sense of them with regards to which axes they use.

You may or may not have seen the latest release from Wacom, a consumer-aimed multitouch (ahem, multi=2 tracking points) tablet that works with a pen or two fingers.

http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_pen_touch.php

I'm interested in using it as a test bed for some multi-touch ideas in conjunction with QC, and am wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and how to go about that.

At a guess, the HID patch would be my first thing to reach for, but I've not been able to get anything useful out of it using an older Wacom, which may be a driver issue.