I’m jumping in and starting with ARS32. And also getting the PS2 controller.
Now my question is what PS2 receiver cable do I need?
it’s going in a 8 leg walker, 3 servos per leg.
Also is there any thing that I might need?
Thanks,
Kevin
Wow you are jumping right in. you may find this useful.
lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx? … egoryID=46
Note: on my Arc32 with the PS2 controller, I use the DIY cable kit(lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx? … egoryID=46) to connect up the PS2.
Kurt
Thanks Jonny,
That’s what I was thinking that I will need. And has instructions how to put them together? The web page doesn’t show that much. Or am I not looking in the right place?
Kert,
With the DIY cable kit am I to understand that it has both receiver and connector? So I don’t need to buy the receiver and the controller cable? It’s a 2 in 1?
Kevin
With the DIY kit you will still need the PS2 and receiver (the first thing in Jonny’s list. The part I mentioned is instead of the PS2 controller cable (the third picture in his list). You can probably also use the the PS2 cable kit.
As for instructions, for hooking it up, the Arc32 is new product. There are very few of us who have one. I have one and converted the phoenix code to run on it. This included the PS2 code. If you look at the Arc32 PDF file, I hooked up the four signal wires up to the AUX2 connector (P40-43). I used one of the ground connections there for the ground connection and the +5v from one of the VCC servo jumpers. To do this I remove the power wire from the appropriate PS2 power connector and then used some heat shrink to give it a little bit of insulation.
Note: Acidtech(Nathan of Basic Micro) used some of the pins on the AUX1 connector for his PS2). I did not wish to do this as I wanted the use these pins for other things. The pins on Aux1 include the I2C pins as well as the pins for the second hardware serial port.
I hope that helps.
Kurt
The PS2 Robot Controller includes the receiver. We bought extra receivers for the guys who have more than one robot. The PS2 cable or the DIY cable kit both do the same job, that being to allow the receiver to be connected to the microcontroller. 
So what is the difference between PS2 controller cable and the kit?
The Ps2 controller cable is setup such that you can simply plug in a PS2 into it (either wired or the wireless receiver). It works nicely such that you can easily unplug the PS2 and move it to another robot if you desire… It works great especially on the Bot Board 2, where the pins to use for the PS2 has been pretty well standardized.
The kit, is more or less two servo extender cables and some heat shrink tubing and has instructions on what to do with them. Things like use an exacto knife to remove the pins from the 3 pin connector… You then end up sticking each of the female connectors on the PS2 receiver, in the right order. It has the downside that if you wish to use the receiver on multiple robots, you have to unplug each of these and make sure that you get them in the right order again on the other robot. The upside is that since you are dealing with the individual wires you can more really setup for non-standard hook-ups. Also has the side benefit that it takes up less room… Note: if you use the pins for the PS2 that I did you can use either. In either case you may have to extract one or more wires male connection pins out from the connector housing… No big deal. Sorry if I added some confusion.
Kurt
The cable is easy, you simply plug it in. It’s larger though, and on a small bot it can be difficult to find a place to put it.
The kit is a minimal solution. It takes up very little room as it’s just wires. It requires you to pull wires out of the housings and add heat shrink to them. The only guide we have for it right now is found in this BRAT tutorial starting on Step 5.
lynxmotion.com/images/html/build155.htm
We are going to break that out into it’s own tutorial and list it in the Product page. We are working out the last bugs in the store software. So I can’t tell you how long it will take.
Thanks guy’s your information has helped me a lot. I have a lot of room on my bot to use PS2 controller cable. Now I need to decide on what servos to use.
Kevin
Thanks for this information, Jim 
I had read about removing the wires from the housing elsewhere on the forum and was wondering how to do it (I need to do this for my envelope detector circuit). A separate tutorial would be great, when you get a chance 
Thanks,
dj
Oops, looks like we never posted the link back in here. The standalone tutorial for the PS2DIY cable is now here: lynxmotion.com/images/html/build162.htm
If you’re just interested in knowing how to remove the wires from the black housing, check out Step 1.
Thanks Beth
We are keeping an eye on all the questions the ARC32 generates and will start tutorials on anything that makes sense to have one. I think the PS2 connector will be one of them.