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Hello everyone!

I was wondering if it is possible to use a wireless bluetooth gamepad to control a Mindstorms EV3 robot.

My goal is to drive a car-like robot with two motors: one for steering and one for fw/back movement via bluetooth using a gamepad like Sony PS3 Sixaxis controller or another wireless bluetooth controller. The thing is that i do not want to use a PC to receive the signal from the gamepad and send commands to the EV3. I want direct communication between the gamepad and the EV3 brick.

If anyone knows IF and HOW this might be done, i'd be really thankful if you shared your knowledge!

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I'm not sure whether this is possible without intervention of a proxy (pc). The pc usually has drivers to talk to the controller. On the EV3 this might be complicated, if not impossible. Maybe it's possible with custom Linux firmware.

I will try to find out whether it's possible or not.

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The pc usually has drivers to talk to the controller.

Thank you for your reply!

So a driver must be written for the EV3 in order for it to communicate with the Bluetooth gamepad?

If you tell me this would be impossible to do, it would still be a big help.

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