wraggster
May 9th, 2012, 00:32
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Gaming has infiltrated everything around us. It seems that any time a control interface is needed, the first thought to many current hacker’s minds are the familiar controls from the video games we grew up with. In this example, [eljaywasi] needed a way to control the wavelength of light coming out of a laser. We don’t know exactly how he’s actually changing the wavelength, but we do know he’s using an SNES gamepad as his interface (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eljaydub/4859858861/in/photostream/). You can see a red and a blue LED located on the front of the pad, so it may be that two buttons would have sufficed. We don’t care, we like the SNES pad better.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/08/making-laser-adjustments-with-an-snes-gamepad/
Gaming has infiltrated everything around us. It seems that any time a control interface is needed, the first thought to many current hacker’s minds are the familiar controls from the video games we grew up with. In this example, [eljaywasi] needed a way to control the wavelength of light coming out of a laser. We don’t know exactly how he’s actually changing the wavelength, but we do know he’s using an SNES gamepad as his interface (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eljaydub/4859858861/in/photostream/). You can see a red and a blue LED located on the front of the pad, so it may be that two buttons would have sufficed. We don’t care, we like the SNES pad better.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/08/making-laser-adjustments-with-an-snes-gamepad/