Interfacing a USB joystick to AVR

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Posted by ssyed_mcu: Tue. Aug 23, 2011 - 05:40 AM
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Hi,

I want to interface my USB joystick to AVR Atmega16, so was looking for some starter tips. I want to be able to read the joystick positions and the button states using the AVR, so as to control some servo motors etc. Any tips or suggestions as to how to get started would be very helpful.

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Sumair

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Posted by jaksel: Tue. Aug 23, 2011 - 08:58 AM
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Do you really want to use the USB interface of the joystick? If so, you would probably be much better off with a device with hardware USB support.

OTOH, if you don't require the USB interface but just want the joystick position and button states, you could gut the joystick of electronics and hook up the signals to the AVR directly.

/Jakob Selbing

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Posted by Koshchi: Tue. Aug 23, 2011 - 03:21 PM
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Forget using the mega16 for this. To interface to a USB device you need to have a USB master and the mega16 is not capable of this. As Jakob said, you need one of the AVRs with USB hardware built in.

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Posted by ssyed_mcu: Thu. Aug 25, 2011 - 08:46 AM
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ok thanks for the tip guys...i'll probably think of using a regular joystick without USB to interface with the mega16.

Just on a curious note though, how easy is it to interface USB devices using an AVR with built-in USB hardware support? Could you please specify the AVR with such support?

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Sumair

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Posted by leon_heller: Thu. Aug 25, 2011 - 09:01 AM
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Try the Atmel web site.

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Posted by clawson: Thu. Aug 25, 2011 - 03:06 PM
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Just on a curious note though, how easy is it to interface USB devices using an AVR with built-in USB hardware support? Could you please specify the AVR with such support?

All the 8bit AVRs with USB support are DEVICE type themselves. Which makes them great for use inside joysticks and keyboards and so on but no use for acting as a host to one.

There are just two exceptions to this - the AT90USB647 and the AT90USB1287 which, as well as "device" do a limited form of host mode called "On The Go" (OTG) and they may be able to host simple devices such as joysticks or keyboards.

So it would depend on what device you want to host - o0ne of those two might work or you may need to look higher up the foodchain at MCUs that have full host facilities (and a software stack such as OHCI/EHCI/UHCI to match).

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Posted by th33lf: Thu. Aug 25, 2011 - 03:38 PM
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if you intend to provide USB host support, you would probably be better off using an AVR32 (eg. UC3A3) or even a SAM :)

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Posted by ssyed_mcu: Thu. Aug 25, 2011 - 04:00 PM
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Great answers guys....thanks a lot :)

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Posted by indianajones11: Fri. Aug 26, 2011 - 02:25 AM
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See the link by Johan .
https://www.avrfreaks.net/index.p...

Good to know this code exist, although it may not be useful for this OP's app.

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Posted by electron113: Thu. Apr 6, 2017 - 07:46 AM
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Hi.

I want to read usb joystick game controller with any mcu like avr - xmega - or lpc1768

i want an example code ? 

 

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Posted by dbrion0606: Thu. Apr 6, 2017 - 10:51 AM (Reply to #10)
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Well, ideas for (?not?) writing example codes can de found in this very thread (and, if they had been false, after 6 years, it would have been detected...)

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Posted by clawson: Thu. Apr 6, 2017 - 11:42 AM
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electron113 wrote:
I want to read usb joystick game controller with any mcu like avr - xmega - or lpc1768
As dbrion says, read the thread. I already explained in post #6 that in all the models of 8bit AVR (including Xmega) there are only actually 2 models of AVR that could possibly (using internal electronics) act as host for a USB joystick device- 647 and 1287. So forget about using Xmega - none of them have any form of host mode.

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Posted by awneil: Thu. Apr 6, 2017 - 12:38 PM (Reply to #12)
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And, clearly, any Atmel forum - let alone the AVR forum - is not the place to ask about LPC1768 !

 

electron113 wrote:
i want an example code ?  

http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=USB+Joystick+Microcontroller+example

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Posted by electron113: Sat. Apr 8, 2017 - 02:01 PM
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I want to read data from a USB joystick.
Communication protocol between the microcontroller and the joystick is USB Port.
I can not find any code examples or similar!

 

THANK FOR ANSWERS.

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Posted by clawson: Sat. Apr 8, 2017 - 02:14 PM
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Have you READ this thread? You need a 647 or a 1287 and with that you would then use LUFA.

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