Week 2 Journal – Ahmad Woods

Keeping up with this weeks assignment I decided to scour  the arduino playground (such an appropriate name for it) website for some stuff and things pertaining to my project which already implies that I have settled on an idea. I guess I’m moving forward with the ambidextrous arcade pad which I think is a neat little idea and it’s something that doesn’t exists in the niche market of arcade pad. The first thing I did was searching for some arcade pad components such as some buttons and the ever important stick. As expected I didn’t run into ANY thing like that I don’t even think I found simple input buttons which I can use for start, select and home. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough which is because I was too distracted by the cheap accelerometers I found on electronics123! Now you maybe wondering why I would need an accelerometer in an arcade pad and I didn’t even think of it’s applications prior to even seeing the word accelerometer on this site. The accelerometer can totally help achieve an ambidextrous pad.