CYBER-CON: The Xbox360 Chatpad/RasPi Cyberdeck

Take an XBox360 Controller and Messenger Kit, a Raspberry PI 3, a 3.5" TFT Screen and smash them together with an FTDI USB dongle!

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I've always liked the ergonomics of the Xbox360 Chatpad and Controller and felt that it would make a perfect platform for a tiny handheld cyberdeck. So taking a USB to TTL FTDI converter, some solder, and some Python I was able to create a prototype of just such a device!

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chatpad-python.py

A very basic and rather poorly written Python script to interpret the Chatpad data into "Keyboard" module commands. Needs a lot of work to be even close to 100%.

py - 4.85 kB - 10/05/2022 at 07:09

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