Fusion Brain?

[Sagz]

Wondering if anyone has looked at integrating Fusion Brain.
Fusion Brain
A friend of mine at work bought one and the supplied software is very hard to get setup.

They are very reasonably priced for what you get.  IMO.

[Jim Flagg]

> Wondering if anyone has looked at integrating Fusion Brain.
> http://www.fusioncontrolcentre.com/FusionStore/catalog/index.php Fusion
> Brain
> A friend of mine at work bought one and the supplied software is very hard
> to get setup.
>
> They are very reasonably priced for what you get.  IMO.

Looks like a good deal to me but it would be for Windows only until they
come out with a Linux version

I wonder if the USB device emulates a serial com port?


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[Seann Clark]

As sad as it is, that is a normal PIC 40 Pin USB - 18F4550
(http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=233) Or a
model like it (if you look at the sites picture, it even shows the Microchip
logo on the main Micro. I have one of these on my test bench (the PIC, not
the fusion Brain) and it emulates a normal USB port, that you need a little
software on the linux box to talk to (if they are using the defaults for
Microchips, then the software is easy to grab, or to decode how it is
showing itself to the world.)

>From http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/
"A game controller. The PIC can be programmed to behave as a joystick-type
device by enumerating (telling the host computer about itself) as a game
pad. The addition of sensors for input and actuators for force-feedback can
provide an easy way of getting data in and out of various host applications
(e.g. Max/MSP/Jitter, Pd, SuperCollider, Processing, etc). Using the
standard game controller input method bypasses the need to write your own
driver for the USB protocol by piggy-backing on the HID (Human Input Device)
standard."

This is just a little bit of an idea of what the device itself is capable
of, and from the looks of the fusion brain, it is a good deploy of that with
some interesting code on the PIC itself.

Just a little bit off topic on itself, but it does match that product.

~Seann

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Subject: Re: [mh] Fusion Brain?

> Wondering if anyone has looked at integrating Fusion Brain.
> http://www.fusioncontrolcentre.com/FusionStore/catalog/index.php Fusion
> Brain
> A friend of mine at work bought one and the supplied software is very hard
> to get setup.
>
> They are very reasonably priced for what you get.  IMO.

Looks like a good deal to me but it would be for Windows only until they
come out with a Linux version

I wonder if the USB device emulates a serial com port?


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