Lee,
thanks for this great pluginn.
I've been thinking about something just like this for a while and wondering if it could be wireless also.
I don't have to search anymore, last week I discovered your pluginn and immediately ordered the wireless xbox360 controller from amazon.de.
It came in last wednesday, I connected it and installed your pluggin, no problemos with installation and the controller worked instantly, just like a charm.
Next thing was to decide which functions to assign to the available switches, underneath is my current setup, but I may want to change it in the future.
However, at the moment this is all I wanted / or needed, for EUR 37,- this makes an excellent pendant.
This controll is very responsive / agile, thus, as far as I'm concerned, this a perfect solution.
I set up feedrate in mach3 at 5%, just love the way I can go to full 100% by operating the triggers.
Furthermore, I have shaped a piece of 1mm SS welding rod to make a foundation so the controller stays upwards, in the flat position it is not so handy to pick it up with one hand, see the attached pictures bellow.
I'm so far not short in the amount of buttons, if you set it up right there are just enough of them, this will do very well for me, but maybe it would be possible to have two of these controllers attached?
(pluginn1 and pluginn2 run simultaneously?)
Then the people who need more buttons would also be helped.
Certainly nothing 'half-baked' on this pluginn IMHO.
Also I noticed that even when the controller times out and is switched back on, it stays responsive in mach3, you could correct this in your manual, where it says you need to restart mach3.
Best greetings and thanks again,
Jerry