For those folks looking for programmable #sensors or #controllers or other devices that are easily customized, I recommend Phidgets. A 🇨🇦 company, based in #Calgary, #Alberta, that has been around for about 20 years.

I have used it for sensor projects (heat and humidity) and a fun #RFID project.

Huge library of projects available in a lot of languages (C, C#, Python, Java, and more).

Lots of online support. Most devices are backwards compatible, but there have been new standards (e.g. RFID) which require reader up grades. Well made, inexpenaive.

#Computers #IT

https://phidgets.com/

@swanson @reiddragon personally, I have the opposite problem but IMHO #controllers should've been designed #modular with removeable modules for sticks, pads and buttons.

• Microsoft merely chose the layout to avoid patent (same with Nintendo's Modern controllers) and because the Xbox's games were designed with it's controller in mind.

  • Granted, with #Xinput & #DirectInput before as well as #Steam's Controller API you can basically mix and match as well as configure controllers the way you like them.

Podcast: The Retro Hour special on game controllers
The new episode 516 of the podcast "The Retro Hour" is all about video game controllers - specifically, the big hits and flops in controller history.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-02-00049-EN.html

#Amiga #retrogaming #controllers #joystick #podcast

Hands-On With Anbernic's RG G01: A Controller + Screen; All in One I’ve never been a mouse-and-keyboard person. I know that’s borderline heresy depending on who you ask, but a controller is what feels right to me. What I g... #Reviews #Controllers #Gaming gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-wit...

Hands-On With Anbernic's RG G0...

"Hands-On With Anbernic's RG G01: A Controller + Screen; All in One" by @flwwhtrbt

I’ve never been a mouse-and-keyboard person....

#Reviews #Controllers #Gaming

https://gardinerbryant.com/hands-on-with-a-rg-g01-controller-screen-all-in-one/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

If #Sydney’s Kingsford Smith #airport is suffering from shortages of air traffic #controllers how is the new Western Sydney Airport going to manage being a 24hr operation?

Selling something a bit rare: Capcom’s only home ‘console’, the CPS Changer.

Is the GuliKit TT Max controller worth it? This controller is *incredible* on its own. But I was surprised by some of its more innovative features! #Controllers #Reviews #Gamepad #VideoGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck gardinerbryant.com/is-the-gulik...

Is the GuliKit TT Max controll...

Is the GuliKit TT Max controller worth it?

This controller is *incredible* on its own. But I was surprised by some of its more innovative features!

#Controllers #Reviews #Gamepad #VideoGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck

https://gardinerbryant.com/is-the-gulikit-tt-max-controller-worth-it/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

Is the GuliKit TT Max controller worth it?

This controller is *incredible* on its own. But I was surprised by some of its more innovative features!

#Controllers #Reviews #Gamepad #VideoGames #PCGaming #SteamDeck

https://gardinerbryant.com/is-the-gulikit-tt-max-controller-worth-it/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

The SNK Neo Geo CD pad is amazing to hold and fondle, but in use it’s got significant flaws.

Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.

• Making the #OUYA look like a piece of perfection in comparison, because that #cube didn't cost 20x more to port games to but merely demanded the (OUYA-exclusive) #GameController #API (which predates the later #Android-Standardized one!) to be supported, which is closer to a #patch than a #redevelopment!

But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.

• Also who thought that announcing a price cut before launch was a good idea in a time the "Osbourne Effect" was already well known?

So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...

• To add insult to injury, #piracy on it is rampant... and the #PS2 whipped it's ass around town cuz it even as #import #console like the #PlayStation2 could shaft them in spite of #tariffs because by that point #Sony closed their books on that platform and didn't give a fuck about #piracy, only allowing pre-agreed licensees like #EA to still shove out their games for it.

And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...

• Really sad, cuz if the Zeebo was like a €50 box, it could've been a smash hit, so it died due to lack of resources...

Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.

• Also respect to Derek from #SSFF for playing the entire Zeebo catalogue tho there's nothing to ride home about...

Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...

#tech

So Im doin some prelim on project thinkin bout controls and stumbled on these.. makes me drool..lol..

(theyre palm size)

#maker
#controllers

Hyperkin The Competitor Controller Review: A DualSense Copycat

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/hyperkin-the-competitor-controller/

Pick these guys up a while ago, didn’t like them holding up my current gen #controllers but they work great holding my tv remote and #8bitdo #duo controller. #retro #gaming

8BitDo Arcade Controller Review
No idea how to use it, but I like it.
https://www.vooks.net/8bitdo-arcade-controller-review/
#General #Controllers #Reviews

Turtle Beach Rematch Wireless Switch Controller Review
Hitting the bricks.
https://www.vooks.net/turtle-beach-rematch-wireless-switch-controller-review/
#General #Controllers #Reviews

A quick dive into the Aleck64 and how it differs from the Nintendo64, including a look at the controller pinouts and cartridge adaptors.

https://nfgworld.com/n64-and-aleck64-controllers/

Unipi Edge E410, E411, and E413 Controllers Built on Raspberry Pi CM4

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://linuxgizmos.com/unipi-edge-e410-e411-and-e413-controllers-built-on-raspberry-pi-cm4/