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Offline darksun9210Topic starter

i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« on: October 14, 2008, 12:51:24 PM »
and the chances are 99% that it'll never happen but i thought i'd run it past you guys see what you think...

how about a box, that plugged into the mouse/joystick/parallel ports that connected wirelessly to another box that had 4 joystick and 2 mice ports on it?

joy1 and joy2 are auto switched with mouse1 and mouse2  depending on what is being operated. like the old robo shifters. joy3 and joy4 are dumped through to the parallel port a-la 4 player adapter stylee.

no need to run a bluetooth stack on the amiga, as far as it's concerned, it is directly connected. the sender/receivers deal with that. kinda like a wireless extension cord.

extensions to this idea include a serial port connection, so that another "master" box on another amiga could connect to it in a virtual null modem. Lotus2 over wireless ;). maybe a virtual parnet link. though going this far may require some config software on the amiga side to tell the two "master" boxes how to interact with each other, and how to assign the slave controller boxes.
maybe even have an audio connection and a small audio reciever that sits down the back of your TV... but if you have a wired video hookup, running audio aswell isn't going to be too bigger deal...

other idea is to have one receiver box per joystick/mouse, but that then starts cranking up the bill of materials....

basic idea being that the miggy is in another room, AV rack, tucked out the way somewhere, and you need your controllers in the living room

thoughts? comments? suggestions?  :-)

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keyboard port?

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Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 12:57:44 PM »
Well.... plausibe, but it would take a lot of money and effort to pull it through.  Maybe it would be easier to have one mini SBC on each side that take care of interfacing the joysticks/interfaces and the bluetooth communication.  Easier, and probably cheaper, too.

We should have a "post your ideas here" thread where we could do some creative brainstorming on ideas.  Most are good and maybe even impossible to pull through, but still, it would be food for thought and could spawn other ideas.   I have a couple, but I'm not going to hijack yet another thread. :)
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Offline darksun9210Topic starter

Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 01:09:00 PM »
mini SBC?

and agreed on the "post your ideas here" section :-)

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Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 01:21:09 PM »
SBC = Single Board Computer



Imagine a PicoITX (like above) running a minimal Linux distro.  The Amiga peripherals could be interfaced using USB.  Bluetooth USB dongles are already very cheap.

Would still require a lot of work, but at least you have 90% of the electronics working.  The Amiga peripherals interfacing shouldn't be too difficult (USB with PIC18F2550 or similar)
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Offline darksun9210Topic starter

Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 01:42:58 PM »
yeah i was thinking something along these lines to get it fleshed out and working, maybe grind it down to an embedded device or FPGA after proof of concept sort of thing.
but the slave box hopefully shouldn't be much more complex than an RS232 to bluetooth adapter.

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Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 01:50:21 PM »
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Imagine a PicoITX (like above) running a minimal Linux distro.  The Amiga peripherals could be interfaced using USB.


Why not just build a simple FM transmitter/receiver, like they are used in carkeys (to open the doors)?
Plug/build in a battery-powered transmitter in a joystick or mouse, and make a receiver connect to the joystick/mouse port.

You want to do things FAR more difficult than really necessary....
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Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 01:54:51 PM »
Of course there are simpler ways to communicate.  To my defense, he asked for bluetooth, so I stuck with that... :)
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Offline darksun9210Topic starter

Re: i've had an idea... bluetooth wireless remote
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2008, 02:23:50 PM »
i was thinking of the basic transmitter/recievers
but i was reminded of when a load of wireless mice where rolled out at work a couple of years ago. they were all set to one of four frequencies. so for every bank of five desks, one persons mouse would move another persons pointer. lead to hilarity and much "i told you so's" from the long suffering IT staff. wireless keyboards were banned due to data security issues.

anyway, with bluetooth, device A is assigned to host A, and all others ignore it if not associated. basicly trying to avoid interference/crosstalk etc. plus it allows other possibilities for communications..

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