Sixaxis

Description

Trying to build a light SDL2 controller port for the playstation3 Sixaxis controller (Dualshock3). Simple DirectMedia Layer(SDL) is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL/Direct3D/Metal/Vulkan. Ive played around with the controller using python and pygame before. Pygame is based on SDL and is implemented as a mixture of Python and C so ill be trying to replicate a similar build only in a much smaller scale: just the controller function.

Setup

1. Install SDL

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev 

Check out there release binaries here

2. Power on your controller by pressing the the PS3 button

Ps you need to have paired to the device before. (－‸ლ )

3. Compile test script

$ make

4. Run the executable

./build/joystick_test       
Opened Joystick 0
Name: Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
Number of Axes: 6
Number of Buttons: 17
Number of Balls: 0

Resources

• SDL Tutorials

License