The iPad , thefuture of computing , touchscreen this , touchscreen that , yadda yadda , blahblahblah . BLAH . What about connecting it to a joystick to get an inst mini - arcade machine ? That ’s what Hideyoshi Moriya did , using Arduino circuitry and cardboard . Imagine the possibilities :
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That was an April Fools ’ daylight jocularity by Think Geek , but Moriya ’s hack is very real . I would wish to get his idea and make a locker like the one above . in reality , that ’s not what I want . What I want is someone to do it for me . Make a mint with arcade secret plan manufacturers and release such a cabinet with an official MAME aper — with Galaga , Burgertime and Donkey Kong fixed storage , please .
Apple ’s iOS already supports peripherals — and jailbroken iPads can use Bluetooth controllers — so it ’s perfectly doable . It only needs the OK from Apple , and the iPad will become the most complete game machine to go . [ TUAW ]
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