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Cheap internet bike racing part 2   James - Sunday, January 31, 2010, 11:11 pm

For the internet bike racing project, I modified an old Gravis Gamepad Pro controller to have a stereo headphone jack connected to two of the buttons. The plan is to get a reed (magnetic) switch, connect it to the bicycle and have it tripped by a magnet on the rotating wheel. This then acts as if a button was pressed on the joystick, and signals the software to do some processing.

Picture of the joystick.  The port is on the bottom of the joystick.

Picture of the joystick's internals.



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