For our strange controller, we decided to make a sort of fighting game controller but instead of it making it easier it's going to be a lot harder. The sort of design was inspired by another controller that was already made called a hitbox (in the photo that I'm going to show it's called a snackbox).
Photo of inspiration:
Using the motion sensors on the cpx board, I was able to map out the cardinal directions as they were the easiest thing to do. The real challenge was to somehow get the buttons to work and tinfoil as the button was the idea. How it works is when you tilt the controller to the left it presses the "A" key and keeps holding it for 1 second and then it releases the button press. This is also similar for when you tilt the controller to the right and down, holding the "D" and "S" key respectively. The tile up is the motion where the button press is a tap rather than it hold it down since you only tap up to jump. The button lay is as so, top left button is a punch, middle top is medium punch, and far right top is a heavy punch. Similar strength buttons followed for the lower rows.
Process photos:
The entire process took the whole day because of planning and experimenting with the tinfoil and how it's registered. What was discovered was that the tinfoil and the alligator clip has to be connected BEFORE it is plugged into the computer or else it won't register the input. The other experiment was if the staple could also act like an input as long as it was touching the tinfoil and as stated before, it does just as long as it is there before it is plugged in. after the experiments where a success we spray painted the box black to give it a sort of color theme and used tinfoil to kind of act like silver. When then cut out circles from cardboard and wrap it with tinfoil to see if the buttons will still work as before as long as it is in before the CPX board is plugged in. In the video you can see that it does work however, the inputs aren't picked up sometimes during the video and even during testing.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RA4S-CDoX8&ab_channel=TastyTofu
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