{"id":144,"date":"2005-11-06T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoonybard.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2005-11-06T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T16:48:00","slug":"my-wonderful-new-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/2005\/11\/my-wonderful-new-controller.html","title":{"rendered":"my wonderful new controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i haven&#8217;t owned a controller for my pc since way back when i got a cheap knockoff mad catz version of the gravis gamepad which was in a snes controller shell. ah those were the days. i used to use that thing to play nesticle all the time.  anyway, i wanted a controller, but a decent one costs like $40. even the cheapest logitech pads i could find were like $30 and they looks like crap. so then i found out about xbox controllers just being usb and you can hack them up. so i found a cheap used knockoff mad catz version of the xbox controller s for $10, took a usb cable lying around my house, and started cutting. but then i couldn&#8217;t find any electrical tape and i realized i had no soldering iron. so 5 mins of twisting and duct tape later i have a controller that works anwyay. it&#8217;s not too bad, except that i really don&#8217;t like the xbox controller all that much, but it works better than my keyboard.  my favorite part of it is how half the wire is black, then there&#8217;d duct tape, and the other half is white. that&#8217;s a quality job right there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i haven&#8217;t owned a controller for my pc since way back when i got a cheap knockoff mad catz version of the gravis gamepad which was in a snes controller shell. ah those were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,16],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-games","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}