il-magic-scanner
Writeup of the build of a prototype phone scanner (by nhsx)
composite-joystick
Use a Raspberry Pi in gadget mode to combine several josyticks into one (by saulrh)
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- | MIT License |
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il-magic-scanner
Posts with mentions or reviews of il-magic-scanner.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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Configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB Device
Going to toot my own horn a little bit here. I used this capability on this work project: https://github.com/nhsx/il-magic-scanner (long story short: use a pi camera to read ID info off a phone screen, then pretend to be a keyboard and "type" it into an attached computer). There's a spun-off standalone daemon at https://github.com/nhsx/il-keebd which handles the "pretend to be a keyboard" bit. It listens on a local socket for text, converts it to scancodes, and squirts them up to the usb host.
The keymap isn't complete by any means, but it's got enough there to be interesting.
composite-joystick
Posts with mentions or reviews of composite-joystick.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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Configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB Device
I've done this, it's super useful. The use case for me was that I wanted to simultaneously use two joysticks with the same game, mixing their inputs together instead of just using one or the other for each axis. The behavior only ended up being possible by writing a "joystick mux" program that would accept input from multiple joysticks and then retransmit it as a gadget-mode device.
Side note, USB HID descriptors are a disaster and someone should do something about it. Even commercial devices by reputable manufacturers have broken descriptors. A tool with modern ergo and integration would probably get a surprising amount of traction.
https://github.com/saulrh/composite-joystick
What are some alternatives?
When comparing il-magic-scanner and composite-joystick you can also consider the following projects:
teslausb - A smart USB drive for Tesla Dashcam - extended storage, auto archive, web viewer
il-keebd - USB-OTG keyboard daemon for raspberry pi
ipod-gadget - iPod usb gadget for audio playback. Client app: https://github.com/oandrew/ipod
voicetunes - Offline voice-controlled music player for Raspberry Pi
arduino-esp32 - Arduino core for the ESP32