So why the Windows app? We’re looking at using the application to handle reconfiguration in place of the slide potentiometer. It may not be quite as easy to adjust while playing as the slide pot. would be, but since we had been talking about an application anyway and this simplifies the hardware it just makes a lot of sense. We’re also thinking this could eventually be used to detect what games are running and swap out configurations on the fly, get metrics on usage, and more. For now, it just reprograms the thing using the Arduino 1.5 beta branch since that has a CLI build/publish tool that I was able to integrate. The variables held in the .h file that control walking rate, the key press, and any other settings we decide need to be handled. The tool is also using that .h as it’s own configuration file by pulling the settings it needs (that the Holoseat doesn’t) out of comments that are embedded. I’ll have documentation on all that written up after I get the whole thing checked in. Hopefully I’ll have more to add on all of this later this weekend.

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