Using N64 Components?
rough_wood
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···· This is my first post, I decided to make my neice a "pet" photovore since she wont have a real pet for at least 3 years. I started learning·electronics/robotics and quickly wanted more complexity and found BASIC, it seems rather straight forward and I figured I could find a way to use my TI-92 with it.
My question is, is anyone using any old N64 components? I saw the PS2 controller interface, and visually the N64 is much simpler (and more cheap and obsolete) than a PS2. As a low budget DIY tinkerer, it'd be nice to use these old components like controllers and memory cards etc to use and learn with. I am interested in just taking stuff from my electronics "junk" box and making it useful, for example I saw my old guitar tuner and figured one could make 2 bots which speak to eachother and react. Since not everyone will have the same guitar tuner, i figured a thread on interchangable parts which are cheap (found at used video game stores for practically pennies) and hackable could be very interesting. If the pins functions were known, I'd think you could get much more memory than comes with the Basic Stamp 2 Homework Board. I am sure someone in here can make this kind of idea work, and help all us low budget beginners get our gears spinning.
My question is, is anyone using any old N64 components? I saw the PS2 controller interface, and visually the N64 is much simpler (and more cheap and obsolete) than a PS2. As a low budget DIY tinkerer, it'd be nice to use these old components like controllers and memory cards etc to use and learn with. I am interested in just taking stuff from my electronics "junk" box and making it useful, for example I saw my old guitar tuner and figured one could make 2 bots which speak to eachother and react. Since not everyone will have the same guitar tuner, i figured a thread on interchangable parts which are cheap (found at used video game stores for practically pennies) and hackable could be very interesting. If the pins functions were known, I'd think you could get much more memory than comes with the Basic Stamp 2 Homework Board. I am sure someone in here can make this kind of idea work, and help all us low budget beginners get our gears spinning.
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Remember, along with Parallax, Google is your friend.· I entered this line into my Google toolbar:
+N64 +controller + interface
... and came up with a bunch of hits.· Here's a couple that may be useful:
http://www.st-hans.de/N64.htm
http://www.mixdown.ca/n64dev/
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs150/fa04/Lab/Checkpoint1.PDF
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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Dallas, TX· USA
Post Edited (Jon Williams) : 1/19/2005 1:57:52 PM GMT