USB mouse on 84+

[koolmansam375]

Dan E's done it


http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~denglend/mouse.avi (7.3mb)

EDIT (by tr1p1ea) - Here is a 1MB version of the video:

http://img2.imagebarrel.com/img/05/178/16/mouse2.gif

RENAME TO MOUSE2.AVI - requires xViD.

[DJ_O]

yeah it was really cool, not that a mouse would be useful but its a start, imagine whats coming next?

[lloydkirk1989]

awesome...how did he do that?

[DJ_O]

I guess its once again the power of TI-BASI... err, z80 assembly combined with the power of USB

[tr1p1ea]

I can proudly say that i was there on IRC whilst Dan_E's was busy coding away and i was there when he tested and sucessfully demonstrated this baby in action!

Amazingly this is Dan_E's Google Summer of Code project, talk about a sweet deal . He is making a USB driver layer for the 84+ series. As soon as his software is out i am going to write stuff for ALL my USB devices .

Bluetooth adapter's anyone? .

[Jim e]

Dude Dans insane!!!! Thats just crazy.

[leofox]

Really cool. If only i had an 84+...

[Andy_J]

Hey, I had exclusive rights to this! In fact, I would have posted CG news this morning had I had time before I had to go to work.

[05:38:20] <Dan_E> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~denglend/mouse.avi
[05:38:28] <Dan_E> For when you wake up...
[05:44:33] <Dan_E> (Or http://junk.denglend.net/MVI_0237.AVI for those willing to download a 40MB file)
[07:09:54] * @Andy_J gives Dan_E a gazillions cookies
[07:25:36] <@Andy_J> ...you realize you're almost done with what you need to do for summer of code then :S

[tr1p1ea]

Yeah, talk about a quick $4,500 .

I should have put forward a grayscale proposal or something haha .

[dysfunction]

Imagine if you had an external USB graphics card... nothing fancy, say around 8 MB It's amazing how fast that mouse is, seems like this would be fast enough for almost any purpose.

[tr1p1ea]

Errr im not sure how a USB graphics card is supposed to work, but yeah the mouse is cool .

[Patori]

amazing... very sensitive too.... some problems with the program though... otherwise.... sw33t!

[Andy_J]

Dan aplied to Google's Summer of Code <http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html>
for making "A general low-level driver to interface with the USB itself, on top
of which other USB device drivers could be written." Currently, he has a USB
mouse working to the point where moving the mouse is mapped to the arrow keys,
the left mouse button is the Enter key, and the right mouse button is the 2nd
key. This works throughout the OS and even in games! "t works with anything
that uses GetCSC or GetKey, Including Sketchy, and the TIOS graph screen (and
Ztetris)." For those of you who don't believe me, there is a video available.
<http://calcgames.org/newsletter/jul_05/mouse_big.wmv> (1.41MB, 640x480) or
<http://calcgames.org/newsletter/jul_05/mouse_small.wmv> (841KB, 320x240).
He hasn't released his program yet, but he will have to within a couple months
to be able to collect his $4000 + tshirt from Google. For more information,
please see the page on WikiTI at
<http://wikiti.denglend.net/index.php?ti ... nformation>.

I meant to post that here a when I did the newsletter, but forgot. Oh well, there you are, and have fun with my recoded videos -- much better than the crap his camera spat out.

[merthsoft]

It would work with GetKey, so BASIC could use it then?

[DJ_O]

you would need an asm program that store the mouse key value to X and Y