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There is something special about playing a real stand up video game compared to playing one with a handheld controller. Aaron (x2Jiggy) has made a controller that interfaces buttons to a handheld controller to bring that special feeling to the home. ”The method involves soldering wires to the button contacts on the XBox controllers circuit board, using these connections we can activate the controllers inputs using our arcade hardware. We need to build a housing, install the arcade components, convert the controller to allow for external inputs and wire the whole thing up.”
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Thanks to Robert Milius for sending in his PS3 Slim hacked into a Mini WOPR Computer from the film WARGAMES. “This case mod was inspired by the WOPR computer in the movie “WarGames.” I call it the WOPR Mk.II. I basically used the XCM cyberchrome ps3 case and some simple flashing LED kits. The small monitor is a Haier 7 inch LCD. “ |
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Viktor sent in a great tutorial on How to Fix a Worn out Video Game Controller. Most remote controls use rubber membranes that have conductive end that press against the circuit board when pushed. The circuit board has some gold fingers that get shorted out to register the button press. Viktor uses some metal foil on the rubber membrane to bring the controller back to life. This trick should work fine for devices like your XBOX, Playstation, Wii and TV remotes.
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Have you ever been to carnivals and played Duck Hunt Game? Check out the video of this Laser Shooting Duck Hunt Game which shows how this game has evolved using Laser technology. It was carried out by few students from San Jose State University and made the use of laser guns for shooting the eye-catching ducks made up of glass which is makes this game more fascinating to play. Mike Szczys from Hack a Day described the process briefly so that you can blend the strategy in some of your projects too. Via: Hack a Day
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Look on this crazy digital Foosball Table connected over Internet. You can do lot of amazing things, once you’ll be able to get this tble online. There are number of salient features of it like: - The Blueprint - The Mobile WebApp - The Agency Foosball league You’ll require a very few components to build your own Foosball Table like – Arduino Uno, WiFly Shield, Stackable Header Kit and Zeitschalter mit IR-Lichtschranken. You can collect all the design steps of this interesting project here. Checkout for more details at Github and Wiki and watch this documentary below:
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Remember the game Breakout? These days with game controls like the Kinect who wants to use the old style joysticks anymore? ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS. They are using an FPGA to display the game on the monitor while it is also monitoring a Terasic CCD module which allows the game to “see” the location of the players hand. The players hand location directly reflects to the location of the ball bouncing bar. Read more about HAND BREAKING BRICKS here. “In order control the game using hand motions, we need a device to track hand movement. We chose the Terasic CCD kit, which consists of a 1.3 megapixel CMOS image sensor and an IDE cable to connect to the GPIO port of the DE2 board. We followed the provided code to learn how to use the camera in the kit.
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Remember the geeky computer aquariums we featured about 5 years ago? Instead of using a computer case this XBOX 360 Aquarium uses a gaming console case. Thankfully the donor XBOX was a not working, if you think the window cut looks great that is because it was cut out using a waterjet. “The tank itself is made of glass, and is approximately 6″ long, 8″ tall, and 2.5″ wide. Water volume inside the tank is 0.45 gallons. The tank is lit with a color-changing (RGB) LED strip. Lighting color and intensity is controlled with a wireless remote.”
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