LIGHT ORGAN

[deadastronaut]

@chris: oh yes tilt switches are a great idea too... ...

ive kept it as simple as for now, so it doesn't eat batteries etc...but yep there are plenty of good ideas coming for expanding this sort of stuff!..great!..


i'm glad your grandfather inspired you too...it seems that's a thing of the past with so called modern life sometimes...

cheers rob.

[chi_boy]

To add vibration, probably the cheapest way would be to find a used playstation controller and take both motors out of it.

How about using the Platstation controller to replace the buttons altogether?  I mean have a light box that the controller is wired into and you "play" the lights with the contoller.  Then the child holds the controller and has access to all the buttons and joysticks with each one controlling a light.  The controller should just be a bunch of switches and pots, so it may work.

-G

After a little research, this isn't quite a slam dunk.  There's actually a processor of some kind in there.

[nexekho]

To add vibration, probably the cheapest way would be to find a used playstation controller and take both motors out of it.

How about using the Platstation controller to replace the buttons altogether?  I mean have a light box that the controller is wired into and you "play" the lights with the contoller.  Then the child holds the controller and has access to all the buttons and joysticks with each one controlling a light.  The controller should just be a bunch of switches and pots, so it may work.

-G

After a little research, this isn't quite a slam dunk.  There's actually a processor of some kind in there.

There is an IC, but in an older controller such as a Genesis, it's usually just a shift register.  Also, at least in the controllers I've repaired the contacts are just pads on the PCB shorted by the buttons; could quite easily sample direct from there bypassing the IC altogether.