Can The Pandora Be Dumbed Down Into Being A...

[AireTamStorm]

Hey, I asked the exact same thing about the GP2X (the GP used an external USB module that could act like just about anything, which is how the LAN over USB works on the GP2X).

Yeah, I imagine:

Game Controller => Pandora (USB Host) => PC (USB Slave / OTG)
Then using it as a man-in-the-middle to sniff USB traffic. That. Would. Kick. Ass.

 

[Pleng]

Just a thought, but personally I don't do as much random PC gaming as I used to due to the fact that my old USB Nostromo controller is dead and while going out & buying another one would be an option - I just realized that well... the Pandora being the oober super device that it is, what if it can be dumbed down into being a mere USB controller for a Windows or Linux system.

Even if it could be done, then you're adding wear to the Pandora. I'm sure the thing will be built well but I personally would rather invest a tenner in a dedicated controller for my PC to save the additional stress on my Pandora. If a nub broke after 3 or four years when I was playing it in a train I'd be saddened, if it broke after 2 years while playing a game on my PC I'd just feel a bit dim... I think

 

[sindbad]

It's perfectly (and possibly easily) doable. I've done it before over wifi with the wacom surface of a device.

 

[id10t]

Actually, I can think of a valid reason where I would want to use it as a controller.

If any of you guys travel a lot for work (or even for holidays), you soon get tired of lugging
a lot of your geek gadgets through airports in your backpack. I prefer not to risk my
tech toys in the hold, and sometimes I have to travel with hand luggage only.

This means I would like to be able to reduce the crap down to a laptop and a pandora,
and just enough leads to charge the laptop and phone etc.
There are plenty of apps (and games) on the laptop (eg media portal) where have a
wireless remote controller would be nice. eg lazing on your bed watching a dvd/divx on the
laptop via the hotel TV, or maybe playing project64.
Why lug an extra usb controller around if you can use the pandora to control it wirelessly?

Maybe someday, I'll be able to travel with just a pandora....

 

[nubie]

even better, we could run something similar to PCtoDS in which the computer displays to the Pandora over bluetooth/wifi, and you could use pandora to control it, thus making tf2 possible on the pandora. Then you could play tf2 anywhere there is a wifi connection, as long as your computer was on.
mmmmmm.
edit-the name of the software is win2ds.
download link.
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=1834



Why bother when VNC exists?

http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/index.html

I figure you are using a (small) linux computer already, why muddle the issue?

(PS people have been discussing this for months)

Check out this video of the n810 using VNC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSW7KXO8z3o

the Nokia n810 uses the same resolution screen (.2 of an inch larger, but that is practically splitting hairs) and an older Ti OMAP, the 400 MHz TI OMAP 2420

So we know that the software definitely *Could* work, and if you have Wifi in your house might be as simple as installation on the PC and Pandora and setting a port/IP address and password.

So I guess it could be used as a "gamepad" this way, although you might actually be able to play games on the Pandora's screen. (assuming your PC is fast enough to render 800x480 of whatever you are playing and stream it over the network)

This is a software oriented toward playing games over a network: http://www.streammygame.com/smg/index.php But I do not think that a Pandora port is likely. Maybe if there is a demand we could see one, or there may already be an open alternative.


http://www.streammygame.com/smg/modules.ph...Req#LinuxPlayer :
QUOTE


Our Linux Player is available in .deb and .rpm installers for Red Hat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.

It is also available as a .sh script.

It is compatible with all x86 CPUs and is also available for PowerPC CPUs. Any graphics card or integrated graphics chips manufactured in the last 5 years is compatible. Our Linux Player does not require any video acceleration.

We recommend Ubuntu Linux.


Bummer, only x86 and PowerPC CPU. I am sure that the Pandora could play an 800x480 or 640x480 MP4 stream and pass controls back to a PC, maybe their ".sh" script can be futzed for an ARM cpu?


I think this is being discussed/has been discussed here: http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?act=S...=62&t=43000