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Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including…

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Fancy the full PS5 controller experience on PC? Right now, it's not possible wirelessly. That's because you lose the Sony DualSense's full haptic functionality over Bluetooth on the PC. Or at least you did until this homebrew solution turned up based on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W acting as a dongle. Spotted on Reddit , this GitHub project essentially allows you to connect a DualSense controller to your PC wirelessly, but keep your PC thinking it's a wired interface. One immediate concern regarding this kind of homebrew solution is latency. Enabling the haptics at the cost of significant added latency wouldn't be much of a win. But apparently, this isn't necessarily a concern. This is all a little outside my wheelhouse, but in the Reddit comments the general consensus is that this Raspberry Pi-based solution should actually be better than a generic dongle because, as one commenter puts it, "the software can be tuned to only poll the controllers, and do it very predictably and precisely, just like a real PS5.…

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