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What’s more fun than playing video games? Designing your own video game hardware, of course! If you’ve followed these pages long enough you’ll have seen dozens of great examples of …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The GameBug Turns Your Breadboard Into a Game Console
While most computer users make do with just a keyboard and mouse, power users often have multiple additional input devices. Gamers use joysticks or dedicated mice, CAD engineers have specialized …read more Continue reading Modular Multi-Input Macro Keypad Integrates Mouse and Joystick
These days, live music performance often involves electronic synthesizers and computers rather than traditional instruments played by hand. To aid in his own performances, [alekappa] built a special interface to …read more Continue reading A Gameport Joystick to USB-MIDI Converter
One of the biggest reasons for playing older video games on original hardware is that emulators and modern controllers can’t replicate the exact feel of how those games would have …read more Continue reading Retro Gaming With Retro Joysticks
If there’s anything you can guarantee about a video game system, it’s that in 20 years after one suffers a commercial failure there will be a tiny yet rabid group …read more Continue reading N-Gage Controller Uses All The Buttons
The Competition Pro joystick is often considered to be the pinnacle of input devices, at least as far as the 1980s gaming goes. But the design isn’t perfect, and time …read more Continue reading Refining the Greatest Joystick of the 1980s
Over the last two years, [benkster] has been perfecting their ideal flight controller. Like many people, they started out with a keyboard and mouse and eventually moved on to a …read more Continue reading Custom Joystick Build Guide Should Point You in the Right Direction
With the recent release of Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox Series X|S there’s never been a better time to get a flight stick for the console, and as you …read more Continue reading Xbox Flexure Joystick Puts You In the Pilot’s Seat
Like many of us, [Emily’s Electric Oddities] has had a lot of time for projects over the past year or so, including one that had been kicking around since late …read more Continue reading [Emily]’s Eerie Educational Electric Eyeball Entertains
One of the many advancements brought about by 3D printing is the rapid development of compliant mechanisms and flexure joints. One such example is [jicerr]’s joystick, which uses a pair …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Joystick Using Spherical Flexure Joint