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How to turn a Nintendo controller into a mouse

We didn’t plan it this way, but it seems Nintendo is the flavour of the month.

Regular Gadget Freak readers will remember a very, very long time ago (i.e. a whole three days ago) we featured a guy who had created a fully functioning model of an old Nintendo Entertainment System that had been turned into an NES alarm clock.

If you have a spare Nintendo controller lying around the place, why not turn it into a Nintendo controller PC mouse?

As it is a fully working model, it must be one of the coolest pieces of computer equipment design we’ve ever seen.

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Posted by Robert Kotevski on July 27, 2007 11:38 AM |

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Alun Williams:

I thought at first it put new meaning into the term univeral controller - not only could you change TV channels and skip CD tracks, you could mouse around the computer screen...

Now I see - its 95% mouse, 5% controller.

Reading the tutorial, "Remove the buttons from the mouse circuit board carefully" kind of made me pause... you would be sacrificing a 'live' mouse, as it were.

AW

Posted by Alun Williams | July 27, 2007 2:37 PM

Posted on July 27, 2007 14:37

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