Make your own Xbox to USB addaptor

[ulaoulao]

insanemaniak, I think your talking apples here, and we are on oranges. But let me get what you mean..

First off a mic jack is 2 or 3 wires and holds analog data. A usb cable has 4 data + and - and +5 volts and ground. Now.. you could use a mic jack aka phono jack to transfer usb data, but you one cable shy.. Now if your suggesting getting data off of a phono jack on a 360 controller then the answer is no.. I dont however know what jack your referring to.


If this jack is more the 3 wires it may be possible to use it for a cable, but the mic part woudl be no good since it now has data on it.. It would be a lot easier to install your own cable.


No questions are stupid.. Only those that think they know all the answer are stupid ;')

[insanemaniak]

I was refering to the microphone as a example, i wasn't saying use the microphone as a connector, i said (I Quote) ''see what components are inside and buy a usb cable and make your own connection for it.'' I ment like build your own connection hub to the xbox 360 joypad by using the microphone as a outline and then add your own components in the microphone with the relevent data on it that connects with the usb and works as a link? Or just make an entirely new connection which fits into the xbox 360 controller but of your own design that also connects to a usb cable therefore connecting to a computer?

[ulaoulao]

insanemaniak, it was not 100% clear what you were suggesting and as I stated..

you could use a mic jack aka phono jack to transfer usb data, but you one cable shy..

so if you meant..

I ment like build your own connection hub to the xbox 360 joypad by using the microphone as a outline and then add your own components

as you retorted. then again " as a outline" I take as you mean use the "mic" jack as a cable out. Again this is totally cool, I get cha' but your missing a cable if its a standard mic out. Now again I dont know what type of cable it is.. But to answer you question..

Or just make an entirely new connection which fits into the xbox 360 controller but of your own design that also connects to a usb cable therefore connecting to a computer?

Yes you can... as I said.. a few posts back..

10 to one says its just a usb device to rf, so yes you could open it and install a usb cable. You could keep the rf in tack and by passing it would not cause any harm. Is the controller for the 360 different from the xbox I ? If so I may be looking in to this my self.

and Given the fact its Microsoft you know they did it cheap, so its most likly the same controller with a little rf send unit in side.

- So yes I would personally suggest a new cable and keep every thing intact. Now here is the trick. The joystick by default transfers RF singles to a receiver. But As I said, I think Micro$oft most likely took the cheep way out and just used a usb RF generator. And if my guess is correct, bingo you don't even need any addition hardware. If on the other hand it is not usb ready, then you would need to either make a RF receiver to usb, NOT HARD... (and they already exist) then write software (aka drivers) to convert that to HID complaint or use a programmable rom and convert it in the game pad. Eith way, its possible given its not encoded.

Some one on this board also stated they plan to make there next joystick usb and ditch the wireless. If this rumor is true then my first though will fly....

[ulaoulao]

blueshogin96 you sound like you know alot about the hardware side of the Xbox and Xbox 360. Do you think it would be possible to use a Wireless 360 controller on a laptop wirelessly, maybe through a hardware modification?

The only offical way requires a usb adaptor to get it to run. But it seems silly buying a wireless adaptor to connect a wireless controller to a wireless laptop.

- sorry TchuBacha I didn't quite understand what you were asking. I do now.. I saw this adapter the other night at my friends house. So what you are asking is can it be used with the wireless Ethernet port (wifi)? If so I know the xbox 360 uses WiFi but the wifi card is a totally different protocol. Is it possible, yes. easy . I don't think so. We would need to get an open source SDK for wifi or a know package and write some code. I still think its encrypted though...

[AerisHeaven]

Isn't this alot of work? I'm surpised by the amount of information posted and didn't realize how it was possible.

[ulaoulao]

Isn't this alot of work? I'm surpised by the amount of information posted and didn't realize how it was possible.

- Not sure what you meant. the only "work" involved here so far is typing?

[AerisHeaven]

I'm sorry, reading through most of the post, i see what your talking about. I was confused and was assuming something else

[ulaoulao]

AerisHeaven, ah no harm done

[RiderLeangle]

For wired 360 controllers for PC, Why don't you just buy the ones that come with the Core model seperatly?


And for those without the wired controller or knowing how to get one by itself ^(o_o)v . How do you hook up a Wireless controller to PC? Do you have to buy anything special to do so?

[ulaoulao]

And for those without the wired controller or knowing how to get one by itself ^(o_o)v . How do you hook up a Wireless controller to PC? Do you have to buy anything special to do so?

You need to create the adapter for that, so far there is nothing out there that does this. I'm planning on attemting this on a few wireless controllers.