- Learn the basics of physical rapid prototyping
- Learn to hack existing electronic devices and reuse them
- Learn to create physical interactions using basic electronics

InstantSOUP

Students will learn the “Keyboard Hack” recipe
(from the classic InstantSOUP “cookbook”), repurposing a PC
keyboard controller to simulate the basics of the Wii
controller (using tilt sensors / accelerometers), thus creating
a homebrew Wii controller for the PC.

Result

A dual tilt sensor that can activate regular keyboard arrow keys just by tilting the sensor left or right.
Connected to a PC running Mame (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator), we are controlling Phonix or any other game with a physical interface – one we created.

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