Hi, i just wanted to share this probably most simple "hardware" mod for your Neo,
Here is the story: I have ported zx-spectrum emulator to play some good old games. The games can be played using touchscreen. The emulator allows you to place "key bind" on screen. If you press that location it generates apropriate key code and sends it to spectrum. The problem is that it's very hard to to always touch the right place. So i have added notifications. When you dont press location close enough the phone will vibrate. This helped a bit but still it was very hard to hit the right place. After some thinking how to improve the situation, i took cellotape, cut 4 small cicles and pasted them on Freerunner touchscreen in the layout of gamepad. In the end i realized i just need 2 circles and i made them from 4 layers, so that they are better felt by fingers. And I didnt pasted them straight on touchscreen glass - i am using protection shield so the touchscreen remains unharmed. It all works surprisingly good. You can feel the cellotape circles under your fingers so you always press the correct location. Here are some pictures if you are interested: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/pub/gamepad1.jpg http://activationrecord.net/radekp/pub/gamepad2.jpg I know that this mod cant measure with something cool like this[1] one, but for us that dont have time and skills to make real gamepad, it can be quite enough. Hope this howto helps some gamers :) Regards Radek [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Gamepad_(NeoPlay) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
