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USB Spinner control panel with 7 to 11 buttons. Possible?

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Endaar:

USB hub is probably the easiest way to go. You'll want one that's USB 2.0 and powered. Then you can just run a single USB cable and the hub's power cable out of the CP.

DaveMMR:


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Nope. I need the option of playing a game like Asteroids, along with having "coin", "player 1", "player 2", "Exit", and "pause".

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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Clarify for me - will there be joysticks on the panel as well? 

D_Harris:


--- Quote from: DaveMMR on September 27, 2009, 10:00:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: D_Harris on September 26, 2009, 10:47:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: GaryMcT on September 26, 2009, 10:38:11 pm ---I'm assuming that's at least two players worth of buttons.

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Nope. I need the option of playing a game like Asteroids, along with having "coin", "player 1", "player 2", "Exit", and "pause".

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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Clarify for me - will there be joysticks on the panel as well? 

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None on this panel.

If the USB hub needs to be powered separately then it is a non option.

Back to the drawing board...

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

drventure:

Hang on there.

If all you're looking to do is drive a USB spinner and a bunch of buttons, then NO, you won't need a powered USB hub.

I can't do a schematic here, but here's the idea


Computer wired to a...
Hub (non powered) connected to....
     USB Spinner
     a Ipac2 or Ipac4 (probably just a 2 in your case)

Alternately, get a USB gamepad with enough buttons on it and hack the buttons (there's lots of info on here about doing that).

A single spinner and controller or IPAC won't overload the 500ma available on a single USB port, so you should be fine.

Just keep in mind, if you start adding things, esp led's, you can quickly go over 500ma (and realistically, you can't to stay well BELOW 500ma because that's the max and some equipment doesn't like being driven that hard.

But, from what it sounds like you want to do, it's all perfectly doable with a single USB and no power.

u_rebelscum:

The minipac si a little overkill, but probably cheaper than ipac + optipac + hub (or gpwiz + optiwiz + hub).  The U-HID is even more overkill, but the U-HID nano is a little under what you want (able to do spinner + 6 buttons).

The nice thing about the hub is you can use it with swapable CPs

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