#Microsoft wireless receiver xbox 360 install#

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#Microsoft wireless receiver xbox 360 install#

We first install the driver so that it can be communicated with the controller: sudo apt - get install xboxdrv Raspberry Pi Software for the Xbox 360 ControllerДЇor Linux distributions, there is a developed driver, especially for communicating with (wireless) Xbox controllers.

LED Set 5mm 4 LEDs: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow ( US / UK).

If you want to rebuild the small project below, you also need:

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller ( US / UK)Д®ach Raspberry Pi with at least one free USB port can be used, for example, the more powerful Raspberry Pi 3.

To use the Raspberry Pi with the Xbox 360 controller, you do not need a lot of accessories:

From the installation of the required software, to the use as a mouse, to the switching of the GPIOs and the control of a servo motor with the joystick. In this tutorial several of these possibilities are shown. In RetroPie, the Xbox Controller can also be used as input media for games on the Raspberry Pi. This allows the gamepad to be used as an external mouse (in desktop mode) or in scripts and thus the GPIOs can be controlled. In addition to the control of the Raspberry Pi via infrared remote controls, 433 Mhz transmitter, messengers and many more, also a wireless Xbox 360 controller can be read from the Raspberry Pi.