Archive for the 'hacks' Category

SNES Mouse on a PC

Hardware hacker, Raphael recently ported his old SNES mouse to his computer. Why? For kicks I guess. How? Well he shows you that on his site. While the mouse itself was nothing special (pretty crappy in fact) I do appreciate the irony - adapting a device on a computer that was designed to adapt […]

3D Mouse Interface

Reader Utch was searching the web for mouse hacks and came upon this gem.
Neil Fraser modded an ordinary mouse into a fully 3-Dimensional computer interfacing device. With a little thread and some hot glue, he strung up a system of pulleys that would allow him to hold a point of string and move it […]

GeekMod: iPod Shuffle in NES Controller

Another sweet NES controller mod. This one actually has a dissected, yet functional, iPod Shuffle inside. The NES controller buttons are mapped to control the shuffle and there is still room for the audio out and USB connections. There isn’t a ‘howto’ yet, but there are plenty of Flickr images to […]

Future Progress and NES Zapper followups

Well I came back into town yesterday and found a swarm of visitors from Digg, Shoutwire, Engadget and the like. Thanks for all the links. However, I’m afraid that Engadget inadvertently stumbled upon my secret plan. Last week, I put together I free motion gun mouse for PC gaming. However, unless I tape the […]