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.

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.

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 ...

We've seen more than our share of game controller hacks in our day, but few as devious as this creation by the folks at Near Future Laboratory, which promises to make games more "realistic" by ...