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This little hack project by Kellbot of NYCResistor takes a rolling ball, an optical mouse, a gutted PS2 controller, and some Arduino hacking and makes it into a working (and awesome) virtual Katamari.

An Arduino Uno acts as the brains of the operation. Control is via a Playstation 2 controller, in this case a 2.4 GHz third party version.

What Kale did here was gut an old PS2 controller by cutting off the cord, ditching the rumble motors and adding in an Arduino Uno chip, an on/off switch, battery and battery controller, and a ...

In addition to the Arduberry and the PlayStation 2 Controller Shield, you will also need to have a Raspberry Pi mini PC and, of course, a PlayStation 2 controller or a similar clone.