Between playing the "Rock Band" video game for the first time recently, remembering and thinking about the old Koala Pad touchpad drawing tablet from back in the Atari/Commodore/Apple 8-bit days, I'm wondering how hard it'd be to construct either (a) a simple drum pad, or (b) a very basic touch pad that I could connect to a PC as a joystick. (I'd be more than happy to create an Atari joystick, then connect it to a PC via Stelladapter. This'd have the benefit of being usable ON my Atari, which is connected next to my desktop at home, and is useful as a fun distraction for my baby son. ;) )
A few years ago, I created a simple 'drum pad' for my Atari using cardboard, aluminium foil, and a couple audio cables. And a lot of scotch tape. :) http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/photos/drum-stick/ I just let William play with it. He seemed to enjoy it, but left it pretty close to destroyed. And he was chewing on foil. :) Does anyone think this'd be something I could put togehter (say, using some fancy partsfrom Friy's), and _without_ spending $$$ on an XBox/PS3/Wii drum kit to use for parts, thank you. ;^) Refs: * Rock Band drum kit (very fun, btw ;) ) http://www.ps3attitude.com/uploaded_images/rock_band_drum_kit-735533.gif * Koala pad (also very fun, back in the day) http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/perif/pics/c64koala.jpg Note: Touch sensitive. Stylus was simply a piece of plastic, you could draw with your hands. It returned a pair of analog ("Paddle", anyone?) values. The button was used to tell it when you wanted to draw. Obviously, no pressure sensitivity or tilt. Fine by me, this is for kids! Thanks in advance! -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
