I have to give it up here. Being able to use an Xbox 360 controller with a Tablet PC is quite frankly cool as…well, you know what!

Don Box posted some code that lets you communicate with a wired XBox 360 Controller that’s plugged into your PC using Managed DirectX. Too cool! I don’t have an XBox360 (yet), but I own an XBox360 controller now ;)

On the way into town last night, I coded up a simple app for my Tablet PC that lets you rumble the XBox controller around by moving your pen across the screen. It just maps the x- and y-axes of the screen to the intensity of the controller’s left and right rumble thingies respectively. [Read the rest]