Easily mountable game pad

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aberrant
 
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Easily mountable game pad

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I see lots of tutorials to build portable game emulators but almost all of them involve tearing up an existing game controller. It would be great if adafruit designed and built a four way directional pad that could be mounted in a case. Maybe even a set of buttons that mount the same way? It would save a lot of time in building game controllers. I think even Ben Heck would buy them if you made them.

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Re: Easily mountable game pad

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Thanks for the suggestion! I'll pass it along to the product team...

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Re: Easily mountable game pad

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The reason we go with the 'cut up a game pad' is that custom molding and elastomers cost $10,000+ its just so much easier and cheaper to cut up a $5 controller :)

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