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I sporadically participate in Music Weeklies composing competitions (more a prompt than a competition). Here's my latest, for the Wanderlust theme:

Glad I went laser!

This is cute:
https://fxbsky.app/profile/wario64.bsky ... oyh34myc2w

Valve has released CAD files for the Steam Controller: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/steam-controller-and-puck-cad-files-officially-released-under-a-creative-commons-license-valve-encourages-users-to-create-accessories-for-the-device

Hoping this leads to the 3D ...

Leak suggests the Steam Controller is going to be $99. I'd been planning on picking one up to experiment with, but if that's what they cost, I'll try to get my hands on one for a bit before buying one myself.

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/steam-controller-leaked ...

A one-handed, ambidextrous game controller prototype: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/disabled-gamer-prototypes-true-one-handed-keyboard-and-mouse-controller-maker-inspired-to-build-device-after-losing-right-arm-in-an-accident

It's explicitly for people who don't have ...

Leak suggests the Steam Controller is going to be $99. I'd been planning on picking one up to experiment with, but if that's what they cost, I'll try to get my hands on one for a bit before buying one myself.

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/steam-controller-leaked ...

This one is more tech demo-y than useful, but it's conceptually cool!

https://www.theverge.com/tech/918216/bm ... r-changing

Hopefully they only let you change it when the car is parked.

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/915328/framework-oculink-egpu-dev-kit-laptop-16

Looks like Framework is building an eGPU dock. This is making me lean much more toward Framework for my next machine, since I ultimately want to use an eGPU to share with a laptop and gaming handheld. Although I'm not ...

Okay, so sometimes custom controllers go too far

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripheral ... -abilities

Saw this recently: https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4 The xteink devices are small e-readers designed to magnetically attach to the back of your phone. I'm still planning on going with an Android devices for my next e-book, but these fill a really cool niche! Lets you separate out reading ...

I need a resin printer

Here's a silly one:

Someone's made an adapter for using the Wii U Gamepad with PCs!

Soldering is the most dangerous thing I could learn. Not because of the risk of fire or injury, but because of the risk to my project queue

If we're talking *solo* solo, this is a great piece by Don Ross. Matt introduced me to him when I introduced him to metal; as you'll hear we met in the middle

Man, that's tempting. Thankfully I have other gadgets I want more, but it's going to stick in my brain until I cave or something cheaper comes out.

Gold standard indeed! That's arcade stick money! Have you used one of them? How's the tactility?

Caught Springsteen and the E Street Band last night. Whole show was amazing, but the real standout solo was Tom Morello at the end of The Ghost of Tom Joad. Here's a video from the Minneapolis show on the tour

Much as we all love the standard gamepad, there's tons more controller styles out there, and people continue to make new ones. This thread is for discussing non-standard game controllers. Inspired by this one, a new knob controller for the Genesis:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1075995001 ...

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-game ... -all-games

The dream of pocket Tokyo Jungle grows closer!

That's really clever

And now the Kickstarter is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/titan-2-elite-the-5g-keyboard-phone-youve-been-waiting-for

Hopefully it'll work for AT&T out the gate. They've said the Titan 2 does (I don't have AT&T so I can't verify this) and that they're working on certification ...

Maybe "unsatisfying" was the wrong word. It would have been better to say it was a anti-climactic. I was hoping to get some technical analysis on how the two systems work, and I didn't. As friendly as their marketing and games are, Nintendo is absolutely ruthless as a company, so I'm not going to ...

Kind of an unsatisfying watch. Neat to learn about this company I hadn't previously heard of, but the crux of the legal question, whether Nintendo violated XaviX's patents or used another technology for motion detection in the Wiimote, isn't answered, and we don't even get a gesture at an answer. I ...