E3, Exec & Everything Else

Well it's been a busy cupla weeks - highlighted by my delay in getting that technical post finished, still immensely enjoyable though. Trips Home, Freshers Week and a lot more about Sony's E3 Hardware revelations.

Connecting a PS3 Dualshock/Sixaxis Controller to your PC (and the basics of Programming with it)

Finally! Something a bit more technical - so yeah as the title describes I'm gonna go through the basics of installing your PS3 Controller on your PC and then accessing its input programmatically through DirectInput in C++.

End of Year 2

So year number two done and dusted.hurray! Now for a summer of...finding a job and working my ass off hehe. coursework got me back in the programming spirit however so after finally getting the phone on to Gingerbread and playing a bit of portal 2, I took it upon myself to find a driver for the ps3 controller, then connect through Direct Input and interface it with my opengl coursework. Very very pleased with the outcome and it was pretty straight forward, might post a wee guide on it later on, eager as I am to claim my share of c++ tutorialism.

Anyhoo, given I'm on my phone pending sleep I'm gonna wrap this up. :-)