The draft-standard Gamepad API allows JavaScript in the browser to obtain input from connected gamepad/joystick devices. This is of course useful for games, so I have worked on adding support for it to Cubes.

This (about) is the only Gamepad API demo that I found that worked with arbitrary gamepads (or rather, the junk one I had around) rather ( Read more... )

The Mac System Profiler app, in the “USB” section, will display a tree of all USB devices, including hubs, and what they claim to be. This can be useful when you're trying to find where the problem is when your system isn't seeing a device at all.

(You may also be surprised at the number of USB buses (a.k.a. root hubs, I think) and built-in USB ( Read more... )