For the last couple of weeks I've been thinking about how to do wireless controllers for NES and SNES.
I've looked at Arduino, IR, RF, etc and I've seen a couple of projects that involved either hacking up an existing controller or creating new controller from the ground up. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel I looked at as many existing solutions that I could find and tried to see if they could be applied in new ways.
Looking at ebay and amazon I can see that there's all kinds of NES/SNES bluetooth controllers that seem pretty nice. Why not just use one of them.
Here's the idea...
1. Get a Raspberry Pi
2. Connect a RPi supported bluetooth dongle
3. Install this https://github.com/SonnyJim/snesbot on the RPi OS
4. Get an old NES/SNES plug + cable and connect to the RPi to get Power from the NES/SNES and to send instructions to the NES/SNES
5. Pair a bluetooth controller with the RPi
It might take some modification of https://github.com/SonnyJim/snesbot to accept input from the bluetooth controller. But, when implemented this should allow users to use any bluetooth controller with an actual NES/SNES.
Please let me know what you think. I'm writing it here to get the idea out if I get too lazy to implement.
I've looked at Arduino, IR, RF, etc and I've seen a couple of projects that involved either hacking up an existing controller or creating new controller from the ground up. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel I looked at as many existing solutions that I could find and tried to see if they could be applied in new ways.
Looking at ebay and amazon I can see that there's all kinds of NES/SNES bluetooth controllers that seem pretty nice. Why not just use one of them.
Here's the idea...
1. Get a Raspberry Pi
2. Connect a RPi supported bluetooth dongle
3. Install this https://github.com/SonnyJim/snesbot on the RPi OS
4. Get an old NES/SNES plug + cable and connect to the RPi to get Power from the NES/SNES and to send instructions to the NES/SNES
5. Pair a bluetooth controller with the RPi
It might take some modification of https://github.com/SonnyJim/snesbot to accept input from the bluetooth controller. But, when implemented this should allow users to use any bluetooth controller with an actual NES/SNES.
Please let me know what you think. I'm writing it here to get the idea out if I get too lazy to implement.