SNES Controller + USB + Accelerometer
posted Apr 9th 2010 11:48am by Devlin Thynefiled under: nintendo hacks, peripherals hacks

As we posted about [Atarity]‘s XBMC hiding in an SNES controller, we were finishing work on a tutorial for [Adafruit]. The tutorial combines a Teensy USB development board with a 3D accelerometer inside of an SNES controller. The Teensy is programmed to poll the SNES controller buttons and read the accelerometer values. The buttons are set to keystrokes and mouse buttons, and the accelerometer values are processed into mouse movement. Programmed to play Portal, we created a video showing how to use the device. You can see it after the break.
It was not quite as easy or quick as the typical PC gamer left hand: WASD, right hand: mouse stance. However, we can think of a number of other games that could be improved with the use of a device that, with a bit of hacking, could time keystrokes as the user needed. With a bit more hacking, the device could be made to brute-force passwords. What else would you do with this?






Absolutely Fantastic. all it needs now is an OLED display in the middle and li-po cells for standalone use :)
Whats the sample-rate of the accelerometer?
Great Build!
another use- make it work for the gameboys or smartphones :) jk
or make it twitter when you “left” “right” “left” “right” “a” “b” “a” b”"