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Retro gaming enthusiasts take note: this joystick is what you need to play any Atari game on the original console. It plugs right into the original console hardware and removes the need to choose the joystick, paddle, or keypad controller separately. You just leave this puppy hooked up and move your hands to the set of controls used on each game. [x2Jiggy] built the thing from scratch. The … [Read more...]
The Nintendo Four Score was a controller attachment for the original Nintendo Entertainment System which allowed you to use four controllers at one time. [Simon Inns] wanted to use some original NES controllers on his computer so he developed a drop-in replacement board that converts the device to USB. As we've seen with other NES controller hacks, the hardware uses a simple parallel to serial … [Read more...]
Seeing this IBM joystick again really brings back memories. But it can be used on a modern system thanks to this USB conversion project. This particular model had a connector which is foreign to us. It looks like a boxy USB-A plug, but has an eight-pin sockets which looks like it's 0.1" pitch. You could try to make your own male connector using a dual-row pin header, but [Gruso] just went ahead … [Read more...]
This original Atari controller is pretty small (take a look at that RCA cable for a sense of scale). Despite it's size, [Kyle Brinkerhoff] managed to fit a complete gaming system inside the controller. This Pocket Sized Atari is a follow-up to another project he did called ArduPong which let him play Pong using a joystick and an Arduino. This rendition takes the external project box from that … [Read more...]
The Atari Punk Console, a tiny synthesizer based on the ubiquitous 555 timer chip, is the first build de rigueur for any budding electronic wizard wanting to build musical devices. With just a handful of caps, resistors, and a pair of pots, the APC is a fabulously fun and easy build made even cooler by [Pat]'s addition of a joystick. The circuit of the Atari Punk Console consists of a 556 … [Read more...]
This RC truck can be controlled with the tip of your thumb or the tilt of a wrist. That's thanks to the IOIO which was inserted in place of the toy's original controller. [Exanko] made the hardware changes in order to use his Android phone as the controller. The white circle is a software joystick that acts as throttle when your thumb moves along the Y axis, and steering when it moves along the X … [Read more...]
[Tim Caswell] has been using gamepads and joysticks to demonstrate his node.js hacks for a long time. The thing is, he has been relying on C++ bindings to handle the hardware while trying to herald the praises of node.js. Why not cut out the middle man and write a joystick driver in node.js? It turns out to be so simple anyone can do it. Granted, this is not a kernel driver. He's relying on … [Read more...]
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