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I was surprised at how much the vibration added to the atmosphere of a game. Turning it on gives you a nice “thunk” sound and suddenly everything feels a little bassier. That vibration function is something you’re either going to love or hate. The cable has a wired controller with built-in soundcard and gives you access to muting, volume, on/off toggle and the all-important vibration function.

The G4 comes with a 2.5 metre long cable – long enough for you to get up for a stretch, but hopefully not long enough for you to run over with your chair. More of a concern was the headband which felt a bit too stiff and grippy overtime for my taste. For long sessions, I found that the over ear cups did make me feel a bit warm, although not unbearably so. The leather cups are plush enough to be what I call “marshmallowy” and there’s a nice bit of cushion on the headband as well.

Being a prolific snacker, I was pleased to find that the mic didn’t get in the way of coffee-drinking or chocolate-eating. The flexible mic boom retracts into the left cup and has its own light to indicate whether it’s muted or not. The G4’s are pretty sexy what with LED lights on the cups and a sleek look all around. Who cares what you look like when you’re in the trenches of a virtual battleground? The answer is you probably do, even if you are in the habit of wearing potato chip crumbs (guilty as charged). If you’re a gamer, what you’re probably most interested in are what I like to call the 3 S’s: Style, Sound and Social. I could go into detailed specs and scrutinise every facet, but that would be a bit yawn-inducing. So it was with some guilt and excitement that I put my trusty Arctis 7 aside and donned Edifier’s G4 headset for a gaming session. But while I’d like to think of myself as a SteelSeries gal, I’m really just an indiscriminate gadget freak. If you're using your device as a keyboard, you shouldn't expect high throughput anyway.Okay, I admit that branding can be a point of pride for many gamers. The bit banged USB libraries only operate as low speed USB devices, so you won't be able to send data at a high rate. The down side of this option is that the micro spends a lot of its time dealing with the low level USB protocol, which might not leave much processing power for the rest of your application code. Because you're using a regular ATMega chip you can use a DIP IC. Here's a complete example of a USB keyboard implemented this way.

Use your ATMega324 along with a bit-banged USB library like the Object Development one.

Again, none of the AT90USB chips come in DIP, so you're out of luck if that's important to you

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I think the LUFA code is cleaner and easier to use than Atmel's, so that's what I would recommend. Use an AT90USB chip, along with either Atmel's USB firmware from their web site, or LUFA.

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If you want the device to appear to your PC as a keyboard, you've got two main options: It doesn't come in DIP form (as far as I know) so if that it is a priority for you it might not be such a good option.

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like the PC end of a USB connection.ĭual: if you don't mind your device appearing as a serial port, then the FTDI chip is a good choice. I don't know exactly what it does offer but isn't Vinculum a bit ore than a fixed CDC solution?Ĭliff: the FTDI Vinculum chip is intended for making USB host devices - i.e. FTDI is a separate product, and can't be made to implement anything other than the virtual serial port class it implements currently

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