I was inspired for this build by an instructables user who used my teensy ps3 gamepad code to build a SNES USB controller for the PS3. I can’t say enough good things about the Teensy development board. It’s affordable and just so damn versatile. John’s code is great and all but I just needed something [...]
I stumbled upon this video by Phil Levchenko showing how to turn an ATX power supply into a bench power supply. I had an old PSU laying around and thought this would be a perfect way to give it a new life. Phil’s video is great, but I found the video tutorial format a bit [...]
Several months ago a friend of mine really into making bread inquired about a possible solution for proving bread dough and making pre-ferment starters in the winter. You see, here in Canada winters are cold. Very cold. And heat isn’t free. Yeast likes to be in nice warm moist conditions, but my wallet likes to [...]
Here is a nifty weekend project. It’s a 2-stage shutter remote for my Canon T2i DSLR. The red push button is a full press and the arcade button is a half press. Since it requires less force to push the arcade button than it does the red push button, it functions exactly as the cameras [...]
I don’t pretend to be a master of wire lacing. To be honest this is my first attempt but I am thoroughly pleased with the results. I was inspired by a recent article by Keith Neufeld in which he showed off his x0xb0x Wiring Harnesses. This is my latest arcade joystick build incorporating my recent [...]
It’s no secret the PS3 will work with most USB HID gamepads or joysticks. However the Home button is something special. If you connect your sixaxis controller to your PC and monitor button presses, the Home button comes up as button number 13. If you then create a standard gamepad with the same button mapping, [...]
I built this board several months ago. It’s a USB gamepad circuit with 6 buttons mapped to correlate with the standard layout of a Street Fighter IV FightStick for the PS3. It’s based on another design by Raphaël Assénat. You’ll find the source code and Eagle files here, both licensed under the GPL. PS: It’ll [...]
This is mainly a show and tell post. What we have here is a NES controller that has been converted into a USB HID device. This means it can be connected to a computer without installing any drivers (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP). The circuit, PCB design, and firmware for the Atmega8 micro-controller [...]
A short time ago Handbrake began to ship with default encoding settings for the “Normal” profile using 2-pass h264 encoding. Sadly my XBox and XBMC just weren’t up to the task of decoding all those fancy h264 bits in software anymore. Naturally instead of adjusting the encoding parameters, I decided to begin the hunt for [...]
