Girly Gamer

Networked Game Controller

for ITP course Understanding Networks with Tom Igoe

November 2022

Probably my biggest pitfall as an engineer is that I didn’t grow up gaming. So, I designed my ideal game controller which is hyper-feminine and very Priyanka-esque. My game controller is “networked” meaning it communicates with Tom’s Ball Drop Game over WiFi using a TCP socket connection made by an Arduino Nano 33 IoT. I fabricated the controller’s enclosure using a candy tin I found on the junk shelf and laser cut flower knobs for the encoder joysticks.

Here’s how I built this thing:

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Github Repo