iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video)

Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there’s no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don’t offer the best gaming ergonomics. A modding project gone horribly right, however, might just fix that right up for all of us. Shane Wighton set out to build a robot to try and beat his favorite iPhone game, replete with a webcam and an Arduino setup, but in the process of doing so he “just realized that [he'd] made a mechanism to play tilt based phone games with a joystick.” Yes indeedy, one of the most awesome DIY gaming accessories was built by fluke as much as design. See it revolutionizing mobile gaming just after the break. Continue reading iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video) iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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