Adafruit_CircuitPython_HID VS Pico-Game-Controller

This is the final version of my HID Cable, a setup I made for my teaching job. It consists of a Pi Pico and a Pi Zero. On the Zero end, a soldered on USB C cable provides power and a wired USB Ethernet gadget local network connection from the connected iPad Pro. The iPad has a ton of Shortcuts (automation app) set up with predefined feedback comments that I can trigger with keyboard shortcuts in order to copy to the clipboard, normally used to insert into student work I grade. A second keyboard shortcut however grabs the clipboard and uses HTTP POST to the Pi's hostname, where it's running a Flask server. The Flask script compensates for any odd characters that the Pico end doesn't support before sending it over UART to the Pico. The Pico is connected to any other device that supports USB keyboards and acts like one, receiving the text over UART and typing it out as if it were a keyboard. This is fairly standard CircuitPython HID with a Norwegian layout.

I found this example code in Adafruit's HID library and I wanted to use the hid_simple_gamepad.py. I was wondering how I could enable gamepad in boot.py? Any help is appreciated.

I downloaded the adafruit_hid https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_HID/releases 5.3.3

It's not 100% correct but it should look a bit like this, the delay you can choose to your needs, but at least 0.15s. Here is a link to the github with a lot of examples

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_HID/pull/66 here it states that gamepad will no longer be included, am I understanding it right?

Then I use the circuit python HID library to sent keyboard HID reports (keypresses) to the host machine. They have good examples on the Github.

Pico game controller

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Just saw this project, looks awesome. I wanted to code a keyboard/mouse equivalent in C for a similar but different project which ended up being a lot more complex than the similar code equivalent in python.