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I loved this shot the moment I saw it...it is taken at the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway just before Christmas. The train is a "Thomas the Tank Engine" special and the guard is dressed as the Fat Controller. I waited until every one was on board and then quickly jumped off the train. I particularly like the sun streaming through the trees, the effect obvioulsy caused by the steam The image had some "dead area" cropped from it at the bottom, as the reflections in the puddles didnt work. Hope you like this.
(Scanned from Fuji Provia Slide)
Note the two header pins I soldered on in the upper middle section of the picture to make shorting the 3.3V to Erase easier. More at: techartblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-controller-applicat...
This woman spends the day directing vehicles down a single lane while roadworks are being undertaken.
Plastic shell of the N64 controller, with just the buttons installed. Each plastic button is keyed so that it can only be fitted in the correct place.
Adafruit 9DOF sensor driving a tilt/yaw x/y controller. Uses a conventional (old fashion) MIDI connector. Uses Sparkfun MIDI board and a knock-off BUONO arduino clone.
3D printed controller housing.
The "wizard" divised a way for Michael to try the controller with his feet, even though they were not prepared for it. He used duct tape and the children's books in the lobby! The wizard is the kind of person that won't accept "it can't be done" for an answer! We are so thankful. He not only saved us a trip back to Rancho, but he saved us TIME. At the moment, Michael is not mobil now, and is eager for this new solution to be put onto his own chair! Due to his hand muscles weakening he can no longer operate his current joy stick.
A modern device RBB arduino on a breadboard connected to an 4051 multiplexer with 8-10k pots. Output is made via Serial at 31250 BAUD for MIDI. Each pot corresponds to it's own controller (20-27) and has a value range of 0-127. A MIDI control byte is sent whenever a pot changes value for the corresponding controller. I will be adding two more 4051 multiplexers with a total of 16 pots and 8 push buttons.
The Philips CD-i. Released in the early 90′s, it was an overpriced CD player that sometimes pretended to be a game console. As such, it had to have a gamepad, just like all the cool kids did. Except, for some reason, the only gamepad they looked at seems to be the two button Sega Master System controller. There’s no Start, there’s no Select, there’s no shoulder buttons, none of that complicated jive. Instead, there’s just a D-Pad and two buttons. What’s that, you say? You count three buttons? Yeah, well, so did I, until I was playing Wand of Gamelon (Yes, I own Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and yes, I have played it. No, it’s not as bad as you’ve heard, yes, the cutscenes are terrible, but if you don’t really look at it as a “Zelda” game, it’s quite passable. The backgrounds look excellent and appear handpainted.) and couldn’t figure out why the controls for the game went out of their way to use only two buttons on a three button controller. That’s when I realized that it’s not a three button controller at all, but a two button controller with a third button that acts like you’re pressing the other two buttons simultaneously. Because, you know, you’re apparently incapable of pressing the other two buttons simultaneously and that’s something that you have to do so often that you want an entire button dedicated to that, instead of, you know, a jump button or a pause button.
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One part N64, one part Virtual Boy, one part SNES and two parts color wheel, the Gamecube’s controller is a strange one. The two analog sticks and the D-pad are fairly standard. The primary button arrangement is probably the most convoluted arrangement I’ve seen, with buttons of different shapes, sizes, and colors. There are three shoulder buttons. Not two. Not four. Three. L, R, then Z, which lives in front of R. Z is an ordinary button, while L and R are these mutant hybrid buttons, with about a half inch of travel space, then a loud click that sounds like you’re breaking the button. The button is analog until the click, then it registers as a normal button press, so some games will assign slightly different controls based on how you press the button.
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Review: www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20101214-tron_legacy_plays... A Recognizer is a hovercraft vehicle used by the MCP's army to capture conscripts and programs.
I do not like the Wii controller. The pointer can be useful for some games, and motion sensing has its place, but… As a controller for most games, this thing sucks. When playing through Super Mario Galaxy, there was hardly a level I went through where I didn’t think “I wish I was using the N64 controller for this.” And the waggle motion? Really? That has to be in every game? Of course it does, because when I think of playing video games, I think about spraining my wrist from constantly having to shake the controller side to side to perform some stupid action that should be a button press. But of course, it can’t be a simple button press because it’s impossible to press any of the buttons on this thing. I nearly dislocated my thumb while playing Metroid Prime 3. Sure, it looks nice, but video game controllers should not be created by graphic designers. They should be created by people with hands.
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This controller had a poorly shoulder button, I think some one had thrown it at the wall/floor in the past. They are quite robust and simply made, I need to get some epoxy to rebuild the hinge.
Shot for the ODC theme "Hobbies"
Although this is a PS3 pad, for me it represents gaming in general, I'm very much a PC gamer. Although I've had consoles going all the way back to the Atari 2600(yes I am old), FPS games on the PC are where I spent many, many, many, many hours. I was part of an Wolf:ET clan that was ranked #1 in the UK for a while, I have the knackered fingers to prove it too! I also lost more hours(because it's probably whole months) than I care to count to MMO's the original Everquest(or Ever-crack as it was known) , then EQ2 and on, inevitably, to WoW. Addiction at it's finest, but now just a hobby.
Strobist info:
YN560 @ 1/4 off of silver bounce brolly directly above subject
A simple custom-made sticker for my new GH3 controller. This is my first sticker using a different method and the first for this controller. The results turned out pretty well and more sticker will come later.
Find out how to make your own stickers like this for your GH controller:
Yup... I'm a dork. I wanted a black controller, so i painted one of my white ones.
Besides buying a "security Torx set" and the paint, taking the controller apart and painting it took no more than 20 mins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8bCWydsY0
simple foot midi controller
5 trigger sw
bank change(1-5)
midi ch change(1-5ch)