I stumbled upon the new hackaday contest: http://hackaday.com/2013/12/03/new-contest-win-one-of-20-microchip-fubarino-boards/ (admittedly I did so very late, because the deadline is in less than 24h ), but I thought my MWO Controller is the perfect candidate to manipulate into an entry for that contest.

By adding the following lines of code:

// HACKADAY CONTEST MODIFICATION
  if ((profile.key[0]-0x4000) == 32 &&
      (profile.key[1]-0x4000) == 30 &&
      (profile.key[2]-0x4000) == 32 &&
      (profile.key[3]-0x4000) == 32 &&
      (profile.key[4]-0x4000) == 36) {
    // first row of button matrix spells "31337", so we output the hackaday URL on every keypress
    Keyboard.println("http://hackaday.com");
    return;
  }
  //*******************************

to the fireKeyEvent function within the event.h file the MWO Controller will print out “http://hackaday.com” whenever the first 5 buttons of the matrix on the touchscreen are assigned keys to spell out “31337”.

Introduction

So I’ve started playing Mech Warrior Online recently and noticed the huge amount of key bindings required to adequately control a mech. That inspired me to design and build a custom controller that would allow me to easily configure and switch between different key layouts on the fly. And so I designed and built a 26 key, touchscreen equipped controller.

Features

In preparation for a bigger project I’ve recently written a driver for the USB Temperature Sensor TEMPer V1.2. As this is going to be part of a bigger project that will interface with these sensors I wanted to integrate the driver with the project. So I decided to write it in Python.

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