Wiring an xbox controller to a teensy like board, questions.

[azigta]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it, but here I go

In the past few days a friend of mine gave me an xbox like controller, more specifically a Rock candy xbox one controller. The thing is that I can't get it to work with windows 7 and it looks like I have to update to windows 10 to make it work, and I don't want to update so I thoght that I could wire each button to a teensy like board and make it work with windows 7.

I've never done this but as far as I'm concerned, I need 2 analog inputs for each analog joystick , (so that's 4 analog inputs on the board) another 2 analog input for the triggers (1 pot per each trigger so just 2 analog inputs more on the board) and then the controller has a 4 direction D-pad , start, select, the 4 abxy buttons, Left button, right button and the xbox button (optional), and the little swith that each joystick has. The controller also has 2 rumbles, could I make them work? EDIT: turns out it has other 2 rumbles inside the triggers! so there are 4 rumbles. I can live without them, but If I can make them work it would be awesome

So I would need a teensy like board that has 15 I/O and 6 analog for the pots and joysticks.  Teensy 2.0 has 25 I/O and 12 analog inputs according to this website, and has an atmega32u4, but it costs about 20€ 20usd... I don't want to spend too much on this so I looked on aliexpress and I found a board that is similar to the teensy 2.0 in the sense that it has a atmega32u4, it is called "pro micro atmega32u4"  is this one

I only understand how many I/O and analog pins a board has if I see it on a chart like in the teensy webstite. Because if I look at the board I can't tell. I've never bought one of this boards or any arduino, raspberry etc. so I don't have much of an idea, but if teensy 2.0 has an atmega32u4 and has 25 I/O and 12 analog inputs, won't the chinese atmega32u4 also have them?

So,
First question: Can anyone tell me if the chinese board is suitable for my project?
Second question: Is there some code already built for this or will I have to write it myself? If so, is there any tutorial I can follow? because I don't have any idea on how to program anything.

Long post, hopefully on the right place.

I hope someone can help me. Thanks

[rstofer]

I'm only guessing but I believe you will want to implement a USB HID device and the Teensy website has the code.  I did a HID device a few years back using a Teensy to add switches, knobs and dials to Microsoft Flight Simulator.  It was pretty easy once I got into it.

[Rasz]

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there are drivers for win7 http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/accessories/connect-xbox-one-controller-to-pc