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Gameboy emulator in Javascript
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The finished project
Ready to connect the Arduino to a PC to send commands and the keyboard USB controller to a PS3 or any device that supports USB kayboards.
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Uploaded on Jan 30, 2011
All connected
All connected
The Arduino is connected via serial (over USB) to a PC, which sends commands such as "press...
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Ready to connect
The Arduino is connected to the input of the opto-couplers. The wires from the USB controller are...
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Headers
Headers are ready, now it's easy to connect to a breadboard. Connecting one contact from each group will simulate a key press.
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Header
We'll use a breadboard to connect the wires, so a header is solder to the other end of the wires.
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Soldering to the USB controller
Both group are done. At this point the wires are independent, so we'll add a way to connect them together.
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Soldering to the USB controller
Wiring
I'm reusing the wires from an IDE interface on an old PC. We need 14 wires per group, so prepare two of...
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The USB controller
Scraping off the gunk. Then the contacts need to be tinned to make it easier to solder.
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The USB controller
There's gunk on the contacts, which facilitates contact with the tracks on the plastic layers. They need to be scraped off for soldering.
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Arduino
There are many ways to simulate key presses. Since we only need to connect one contact from a group of...
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The USB controller
Nothing to touch on the top side, we'll wire everything on the bottom. We can remove the board from the keyboard though, we won't need the shell.
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The USB controller
The USB controller has two groups of 14 contacts. A key press links a contact on the left to one on the...
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Keyboard open
A keyboard is simple inside: the keys press onto a rubber pad, which presses two contacts on two plastic...
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The victim
I used an old USB keyboard for the project. I'd already hacked it by sanding the keys to remove the...
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