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I wanted to run my intellivision games on my raspberry pi but use an original controller. I found a company that was making them but if stopped due to chip availability. So I am making my wn dapter to convert an intellivision controller into a USB controller.

EXPANDED TECHNICAL DETAILS

Retro-Console Peripheral Emulation

This project provides a hardware bridge for using original 1979 Mattel Intellivision controllers on modern PCs via USB.

  • Non-Standard Matrix Decoding: The Intellivision controller uses a specialized parallel-wire interface for its unique 16-direction disc and keypad. The Arduino implements a custom scanning algorithm to decode the discrete voltage levels and button states.
  • USB HID Joypad Synthesis: The Arduino identifies itself as a standard USB HID Joystick. It maps the complex Intellivision disc inputs into modern X/Y axis values, making it compatible with any modern emulator.

Accuracy

  • Sub-Millisecond Polling: Scanning the original hardware at 1000Hz to ensure that even the fastest "disc rotations" are captured perfectly without dropping inputs.

ข้อมูล Frontmatter ดั้งเดิม 

title: "Intellivision controller adapter (Arduino)"
description: "This project is to take an existing intellivision controller and using an Arduino micro map it to keystrokes to be used in cool CV emulator"
author: "bretb"
category: ""
tags:
  - "game controller"
  - "intellivision"
  - "adapter"
views: 1116
likes: 0
price: 1120
difficulty: "Intermediate"
components:
  - "1x intellivision controller"
  - "1x Arduino Micro"
tools: []
apps:
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downloadableFiles:
  - "https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/1d604f0c-f62a-4a49-b5dc-cd848b7fe27f.ino"
  - "https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/1d604f0c-f62a-4a49-b5dc-cd848b7fe27f.ino"
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