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[quote="Tehrasha"] AFAIK, the 5000A is simply a rebranded 4000. It would use the SpaceBall4000 (Spaceball) setting on the Orbotron9000 rather than the SpaceBall5000 (Magellan) setting.[/quote] That makes more sense than a 5000 w/ backwards compatible firmware :D Is there any difference in the 5000/M...

[quote="VDX"]... I've changed the windows setting to "accept unsigned driers", but my Win7 64Bit told me, that it can't do anything with this sort of *.inf file :-/ [/quote] I'm on Win8 64-bit. The orbotron.inf file just uses the arduino drivers, so if you installed the arduino IDE (you do have to d...

[quote="vputz"]VDX had some problems installing the driver on Win7, so I'm a little distressed about that as it should "just work"[/quote] What problems did he have? Vista/Win7/Win8 are a bit fussy about unsigned drivers so you have to reboot into the windows bootup menu and allow unsigned drivers t...

"The USB shield uses a FTDI USB to UART chip. The RFduino has a bootloader which loads code over UART. The USB shield does not have an ARM programmer. If an ARM programmer is used to try and program the RFduino, it will erase the bootloader." Asked them about their USB shield. So it looks like there...

[quote="vputz"] If someone came out with a solid Cortex M0 SOC with both USB and BT, I'd be ecstatic.[/quote] How about an M3? Broadcom BCM20732 http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s767776 No info on pricing anywhere yet. There are supposedly eval kits available, but I can't find any page w...

[quote="vputz"]doesn't seem to do USB directly (I was hoping it would do BT and USB), so I'm actually curious how they're going to program it from the Arduino environment[/quote] They require you to use a USB shield for programming. If you look at the board, it's fairly complicated so I'd bet it imp...

[quote="vputz"] That's what I'm thinking too. But then there's the problem of how to remap them reliably so that a game could use them[/quote] When a bluetooth device shows up in Windows, doesn't it stay at the same "ID"? If so, the game should be able to detect the ID and map properly. You might ha...

[quote="vputz"] playing with an ARM-based bluetooth SOC (the heart of the rfduino) to see if I can learn how to make it work with the Arduino environment ...can't work out how to make them appear as one controller if I have multiple BT devices.[/quote] Doubt you can make multiple BT devices show up ...

Ha! Did I mention I'm stubborn? :lol: The issue was staring me in the face all this time. Arduino 1.5 actually needs an upload.tool parameter or it'd use the BasicUploader which of course doesn't do anything any more so it face plants :? I submitted a bug in the arduino github project too...hopefull...

So FYI, I did install Arduino 1.0.5 (did I ever say I'm stubborn about trying the latest? :D) Installed fine...basicjoystick and gaindemo work fine. Only difference in following directions is I didn't have a c:\users\arduino\libraries directory. Instead, I installed the libraries\orbotron folder int...

Did I ever tell you I'm not great at following directions? :? I installed the latest Arduino 1.5.2 nightly so I could try the Arduino Due (ARM based Arduino). They've apparently moved thing around quite a bit, so under hardware/arduino, there are now different architectures. To get the basicjoystick...

For folks who haven't done it before...the orbotron 9000 github page (https://github.com/thingotron/orbotron_9000) says install the arduino IDE, but doesn't specify that under Tools/Board in the menu, you have to specify ATMega2560; if you don't do this, it'll say "Serial1 not defined in scope". You...

[quote="vputz"] I'm also using a no-clean flux pen, which probably isn't doing a particularly good job... I've tried fixing a bridge with flux and dragging, and that succeeded in bridging almost an entire side of the chip.[/quote] For this, you really need to use a conical solder tip for it to be al...

[quote="vputz"]Each one required substantial rework--STILL bridges on the 32u4 (!) and lots of problems with that old USB connector[/quote] Are you using a different kind of solder paste than what Sparkfun used? I'm wondering if yours has less flux? Or are you using too low a temp w/ your reflow pla...