ive been playing RC for quite sometime now. .i have i got interested to try to control my RCs from the PC. .i saw a guy using a servo controller to play with his RC truck. .so i research about maestro and i found it interesting so i ordered one and wanting to learn more about it. .im noob when i comes to programming but im a mechanical junkie. .
i read that you can control the maestro 12 via pc using maestro control center so i would like to ask from you guys if its possible to use a joystick to be interfaced with the maestro control center or is there any other software i can use to i can control the maestro 12 using a joystick via the pc. .
hoping anyone could help me out. .btw i saw some guy used ps2 but kinda confused if it was interfaced directly to maestro 12 or it was interfaced via pc. .
The Maestro control center will not let you use a joystick or other external device to interface with the servo controller. The other project you saw probably involved a custom computer program to process the PS2 controller input and send the proper serial commands to the Maestro, or he could have written a Maestro script to read the PS2 controller input directly and respond accordingly.
I’m not sure if there is any prewritten software out there that can do what you want, but I wouldn’t be surprised. The Maestros support the mini SSC protocol, which is used by a number of different servo controllers from different manufacturers, so you might be able to find a joystick-controllable mini SSC interface program.
