laurent-gauthier / usb-missile-launcher

C Linux program to control a USB missile launcher

USB Missile Launcher

This code was originally written by Luke Cole (see http://lukecole.name).

I have just imported it in GIT from the original Sourceforge project and made some cosmetic changes to it:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbmissile

The original GPLv2 license is used, as it should.

Description

usb-missile-launcher is user space Linux driver to control the the USB Missile Launcher and USB Circus Cannon from the command line or via keyboard (simple C implementation).

Command Line Control Options:

• -F: Fire one missile (that's what it's all about!).
• -R: Turn the turret towards the right.
• -L: Turn the turret towards the left.
• -U: Turn the turret up.
• -D: Turn the turret down.

In addition to these commands it possible to specify a delay after which the execution of the command is to be stopped:

• -S delay: The delay value has to be expressed in milliseconds.

Keyboard Control Keys:

• Up Arrow - Move Up
• Down Arrow - Move Down
• Left Arrow - Move Left
• Right Arrow - Move Right
• F Key - Fire Missile
• S Key - Stop Moving

Installation

On Ubuntu you first need to install the libusb-dev package before you can compile this program.

1. Clone this GIT repository from Github:

   git clone https://github.com/laurent-gauthier/usb-missile-launcher
   

2. Go to source directory:

   cd usb-missile-lancher
   

3. Compile the code:

   make
   

4. Control the USB Missile Launcher from the command line, as root:

   ./usb-missile-launcher -L
   ./usb-missile-launcher -R
   ./usb-missile-launcher -U -S 100
   ./usb-missile-launcher -R -U -F
   

   This will move the USB Missile Launcher left, right, then up however stops after 100ms and then finally moves simultaneously right, up and fires a missile.

Alternatively is also possible to control the USB Missile Launcher from the keyboard located at /dev/input/event0 as follows:

sudo ./usb-missile-launcher -c /dev/input/event0