Building Your Own Game Controller

To build a full-blown game controller, we only need to add a button to our breadboard. Figure 19, Game controller with accelerometer and pushbutton shows you how to do it. (Please double-check the pin labels on your breakout board!)

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Figure 19. Game controller with accelerometer and pushbutton

That’s how it looks inside a typical modern game controller. We won’t build a fancy housing for the controller, but we still should think about ergonomics for a moment. Our current breadboard solution is rather fragile (see the following figure), and you cannot really wave around the board when it’s connected to the Arduino. ...

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