First I had to find something to replace the aging brain of this old device. I have always been interested in microcontrollers and this looked like a great way to start and learn some new things. Check through all of my bookmarks for various sites and such and then found the base for this new project. The Teensy, this microcontroller was able to emulate generic HID devices and be programmed in the same IDE as the Arduino.
Hey, your project was featured in this weeks hacklet and added to the minecraft list.
http://hackaday.com/2015/02/06/hacklet-33-minecraft-projects/