Haven’t posted here in a while:

I’m off work for the holidays, so I figured it was a good time to make a #USB joystick for my AIO emulation TV.

My main design goal here is to exclusively use parts I already have. In this case, it’s the electronics from a very cheap USB controller that came in a pack of 2 for $5. I’m housing it in the storage case from a Sony Betamax video tape, with a microswitch joystick, buttons, wires, and breadboards leftover from other projects.

I have the parts tested and working, and now I’m dremeling out the holes, and mounting the rest of buttons and circuits on the bread board. The dremeling sucks because Sony went overboard on this case. Aside from protecting a tape, I’m pretty sure this thing could stop a bullet. 😆
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#retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #emulation #joystick #videogames #sony #betamax #trashtotreasure #retroaesthetic #1970s #1980s #1990s

@TwosomesUP I didn’t have a 2600 until recently - I didn’t have great memories of playing it at friends’ houses. But now that I have one I love it.

Go-tos are Ms. Pac-Man, Cosmic Ark, and River Raid.

@iyalei definitely. I’m only there because I’ve made some good friends from a handful of tag and shitposting groups, and it’s the only platform that has so many different ways of interacting.

More and more of that content and those people are just as accessible on other platforms now though, so I’m slowly phasing it out. I deleted the app a few weeks ago and haven’t really missed it.

@iyalei Facebook is the worst for this. On mobile especially. Not only will I lose my place and maybe something I was typing, but their search is terrible. So sometimes I just can’t find it again and I never get to say the thing I wanted to say. Twitter refreshing might now bother me as much because I’ve relied on it that much.

Mastadon is infinitely better than either in this though.