![]() ![]() They might cost a few pounds/dollars more but you save so much aggravation. Learn from my mistakes buy the proper components. That's it!ĭuring the initial development stages of the Optical Mouse tutorial I tried a cheap knock-off USB shield from Ebay and some other piece of junk from Hobbytronics. ![]() Mount the USB shield on the Arduino as shown in the image. It'd be interesting to know if it works with a video consol. I'm using an 800 XL but I expect it to work with anything with a suitable joystick port. I'm using Dupont connectors as they plug straight into the USB shieldĪtari 8-bit computer. If anyone's getting a sense of deja vu about this, it's the same technology as the optical mouse tutorial Reading the PS3 controller is done by the USB shield. The idea here is that the old Atari joystick works by switching on whatever pins correspond to a movement in a particular direction.Īll we need to do is replicate this with the Arduino using digitalWrite. There's two sides to this reading the PS3 controller and then telling the Atari what's going on. How hard is it to use a PS3 contoller? Will my pet human still suck at Defender? ![]() Or can it? Controller technology has moved on a bit in the last 35 years. The standard Atari joystick can't be beaten for the full on retro gaming experience. This tutorial shows the steps required to attach a PS3 controller to an Atari 8-bit home computer ![]()
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