Here's a thread on how the Gravis GamePad Pro - a game controller with ten digital buttons - was made to work on the PC gameport interface, which actually only supports a total of four buttons. You've probably never actually wondered about that, but you very probably *have* wondered about where all those zeroes and ones they talk about in computing come into things, and this thread has that, too! 🧵
Ask your doctor today if Bowl O' Plastic is right for you! The next step in my #Thrixels madness is seamlessly joining multiple panels together to support larger mosaics. Here's a test with no extra clearance - not only is there a gap, it's exacerbated by the tiles pushing the thin substrate walls outwards, so those will have to be cut away in the next attempt.
That metal pin is from the #GravisGamePad project - I will need to find a different "dowel" material.
My #Necroware prototype has passed its first test! My old #GravisGamePad works perfectly on it. (The DIP switches aren't set correctly, I'm bypassing them manually in software for the moment.)
Now that I have a solid testbed that isn't a rat's nest of jumper wires, I can start implementing PS/2 keyboard support on top.
The time I spent designing and #3dprinting my own soldering station was well worth it - that's the quickest I've ever been able to throw a working thing together.
@timixretroplays My first real Arduino project was an adapter for my father's #GravisGamePad Pro.
That particular gamepad only had a gamepad port and the adapter made it USB-compatible. (At least for the single-player mode of the gamepad.)
Being new to the platform (and being a cheapo), I realised only after ordering that the Arduino Nano required me to have USB implemented software-side, with some additional electronics around the GPIOs used as USB data pins. It was an adventure. :)
Here's a short video to give an idea of scale and what it sounds like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRrprExgZtY #3dprinting #Arduino #retrogaming #GravisGamePad
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