first post – w00t

Posted at 10:18 pm on Dec 3rd, 2006 by olliestyles

19 minutes – w00t

Posted at 10:20 pm on Dec 3rd, 2006 by olliestyles

no leds , steve’ll be pissed!

Posted at 10:21 pm on Dec 3rd, 2006 by olliestyles

good-steve (im not leds-steve) is more upset he didnt get creds on the submission list for the wiimote drivers :(

Posted at 10:28 pm on Dec 3rd, 2006 by steve

Steve: huh? You did get credited for the wiimote windows drivers.

Posted at 11:20 pm on Dec 3rd, 2006 by will o'brien

I hear Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 was released recently too…

Posted at 2:48 am on Dec 4th, 2006 by Matt

I’d never really thought about console controllers from an accessibility point of view before, but this surely is an issue that needs addressing from an industry viewpoint.
Maybe this will be an additional up side to the wiimote, as it removes some of the need for digital dexterity in speaking to a game. I have a friend of the family who has MS and is now quite restricted by it, all this kind of inspires me to see if a wiimote and bluetooth might make his PC experience easier.

Posted at 3:18 am on Dec 4th, 2006 by Phil

Good for erotic games :)

Posted at 6:06 am on Dec 4th, 2006 by Long

This man is becoming a legend in his own time!

The things I see him do in his projects are inspirational. I’m looking at a couple of my own hacks and want to make changes based on some of his component re-mounting techniques now.

Go man go!

Posted at 6:22 am on Dec 4th, 2006 by strider_mt2k

Is it even usable?

Posted at 6:34 am on Dec 4th, 2006 by Joel

i’ve never really considered game controllers from a disabled standpoint either
- i wonder if an option for moving the analog stick to a “floor” type that could be controlled by a toe, and a strap to keep the hand operated controller located on a leg, so you don’t have to maintain a grip locating buttons
-that aside, i think it’s great you can make yourself avail. to modify such things for others

Posted at 1:11 pm on Dec 4th, 2006 by housebrand

joel, i would think so. the only problem i would expect from it is that the xyab buttons may be somewhat hard to get used to with the dexterity of a middle finger. a thumb is easy because it is an opposable appendage. middle fingers, though, not so much.

however, being a former soldier, and a disabled one at that, he is probably more than willing to learn and cope. (adapt and overcome, so to speak!)

i think a cool idea for it would be to make the lower stick mount onto a larger, “u” shaped piece that sits on the leg. a beefier spring would help to center it, and it would act alot like a large joystick. the way it is now seems like it would be really easy to relax your arm a bit, which would put the weight of the controller down on the stick and move it to the side, perhaps deflecting your critical head shot in Halo 2.

Posted at 7:51 pm on Dec 4th, 2006 by Farris

by the way, the “comment confirmation box” still needs some revision. on my monitor the text and the background of it are almost exactly the same color.

Posted at 7:55 pm on Dec 4th, 2006 by Farris

I don’t know what kind of monitor you are using, but even IE works fine here….

Are you sure that the monitor is turned on?

Posted at 8:04 pm on Dec 4th, 2006 by ...

Man, I wish I had access to Ben’s workshop! If only I could win the lotto jackpot…
Hey, it might be possible to overcome the functional overload of one-handed control by coupling this to something like a dance mat! Okay, not too manly, but functional. And how would this guy play guitar heroes? I wanna see the 1-handed control for that. Great job, as always, Ben.

Posted at 11:13 am on Dec 5th, 2006 by Pocketbrain

Does anybody remember the Nintendo quadriplegic controller? You just suck and blow in it to control the game. The blow job games were the best.

Posted at 5:57 pm on Dec 5th, 2006 by Crash

i used to enjoy playing on xbox till i lost my right arm in a accident where can i buy this from

Posted at 10:05 am on Nov 12th, 2008 by mick