DIY Steering Wheel Base

[dennisnojack]

Found this on USB.org.

HID Descriptor Tool
This tool allows you to create, edit and validate HID Report Descriptors. The tool also supports a variety of output formats (.txt, .inc, .h, etc.). DT uses ASCII based Usage Tables and supports vendor defined pages as well. Included are Usage Table files for the HID Usage Table document 1.0 Release Candidate 1, Monitor Class 1.0 Release Candidate 2, and Power Class Spec. Read the included README.TXT file for more information.

Communicating Arduino with HID-Devices

Could be helpful....

[sirnoname]

The HID part is easy and clear. The driver is the problem. For x86/64 support etc.
A HID has no option for Force Feedback, only for joystick input without output.
For example the RnR Interface on this page has a HID joystick included.
HID is driverless but has no FF option.

A FF driver get from the game different commands with frequency/type and play duration that is downloaded to the device. After it is downloaded it can be played, paused or stopped.

[dennisnojack]

DirectInput (Windows Drivers)

This suggestet me that the FFB is done by Registry Settings.
Force Feedback Device Driver Interface

I also read on a site (haven't bookmarked it) that they successfully use the FFB-Registrysettings from the Sidewinder Pro Joysick to bring FFB to an DIY-Device.

[RacingMat]

Keep going Dennisnojack!
It's interesting
Yes, the driver part is much more difficult than mechanical hardware fitting... You will have to learn to code
That's exciting!

[dennisnojack]

I know Mat!! I just startet with Arduino this year and the progress is really good, but driver coding is like a big book with white pages.

But i keep learning....

[dennisnojack]

Reverse Engineering the Force Feedback Pro

Found this on code.google.com.
https://code.google.com/p/adapt-ffb-joy/

[sirnoname]

Interesting and fits to the standard driver of microsoft.
So the 18f firmware is the best way to implement such a descriptor.
Which way you go? C++ or picbasic?

[dennisnojack]

I don't know, because i have no clue about coding. I just startet this year with Arduino. C code is like PHP. I can write simple programs but never wrote a Firmware. =)

If I woud be able to write a Firmware, i would write it in c++. Because its simular to c and the MS reference is also in c++.

Anyone like to help me to code an FFB Firmware for my Project.

The BU0836-LC is also based on a PIC18F. Its a 2458.

[dennisnojack]

Today i order two samples (PIC18F4553-I/P and PIC18F2553-I/SP) from Microchip.

[dennisnojack]

Found today

http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm

Microchip PIC18F4550

device-hid-generic-lvr.zip is a modification of Microchip's USB example titled Device - HID - Custom Demos. My code adds support for vendor-defined control transfers. Written for the PIC 18F4550 and Microchip's MPLAB mcc18 compiler v3.44 with the Microchip Libraries for Applications v2012-10-15. Tested with MPLAB v8.88 and MPLAB X v1.60. Updated 1/20/13.