Plug in your Feather to your USB gaming device, be it a PC or gaming system. Then, plug in your gamepad to the Feather.
You may need to calibrate your controller, depending on what you're using it with. For example, Steam requires you to setup any custom controllers within Settings. You can also test it ahead of time with a browser-based gamepad tester.
And again, this guide is meant to demonstrate what is possible with USB host and should be used as an experiment or in aiding accessible gaming. This isn't a walkthrough on how to cheat in video games, especially in online or competitive play.
Once you're playing your game, you can try out your combo to turn on turbo mode! The mode is toggled with the combo, so just press the combo again to stop it.
This project can be modified to be more than just a turbo button. You could change the code to send a specific button combo (up, up, down, down, left, right..), listen for multiple combos or even add an external foot pedal or other accessible controller to send certain button presses. If gaming isn't your thing, you could also experiment with changing the code to act as a different type of HID device, like a MIDI controller, and have the gamepad button combinations trigger certain MIDI events.
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