mbed Minecraft! Well, Almost...

Today, we added some parts liberated from Detkin lab to the circuit from our last update, and here's the results:

Hey Kevin, I carry around the mbed "credit card" too

We used a nice 8-switch package that we found in a Detkin drawer to implement eight game controller buttons (with eight 10k resistors used to make the switches drive both high and low).  In place of analog sticks (we couldn't find any), we used four potentiometers for the four controller axes.

Of course, you can always see for yourself in this video (of Paul playing Minecraft):


 
Pardon the awkward-looking actions in game: it's not easy to look around by adjusting potentiometers with a screwdriver.

Parts order went out today, so hopefully by Monday we'll have everything we need to get this thing actually working.

Paul