CONTROLLER SIGNAL ANALYZER
Press switches and move sticks while watching parallel pins, serial bits, ADC codes, and HID reports.
CONTROLELECTRICALDECODEINPUT STATE
OPEN INSTRUMENT HARDWARE COLLECTION · TEN LIVE INSTRUMENTS
DON'T JUST PLAY IT.
PROBE THE SIGNAL.
These benches begin with a physical action, expose the raw signal, and let you follow the circuitry until it becomes motion, light, sound, or data.
ACTION → SIGNAL → HARDWARE → OUTPUTWII IR POINTING BENCH
Aim a camera-equipped controller at two IR references and inspect blobs, roll, separation, and cursor reconstruction.
IR LEDSCAMERABLOBSCURSOR
OPEN INSTRUMENT PADDLE RC-TIMING BENCH
Turn a potentiometer and follow a capacitor voltage through a comparator into a quantized timer count and decoded paddle angle.
PADDLERC CHARGECOMPARATORTIMER
OPEN INSTRUMENT CRT OPTICAL CONTROLLER
Compare a beam-timed light pen with a software-flashed light gun through raster counters, photodiode voltage, and display latency.
SCREEN LIGHTPHOTODIODETHRESHOLDHIT
OPEN INSTRUMENT MOTION SENSOR FUSION
Compare accelerometer tilt, integrated gyro motion, and a complementary estimate while bias produces visible drift.
MOTIONACCEL + GYROFILTERPOSE
OPEN INSTRUMENT VECTOR DISPLAY BEAM
Step an X/Y/Z vector list and expose flyback lines, dwell, quantization, phosphor persistence, and blanking.
VECTOR LISTX/Y/Z DACBEAMPHOSPHOR
OPEN INSTRUMENT PROGRAMMABLE SOUND GENERATOR
Tune divider counters, attenuation, mixer enables, and an LFSR noise source while inspecting the summed waveform.
REGISTERSDIVIDERSMIXERAUDIO
OPEN INSTRUMENT PCM, DAC + AUDIO DMA
Change sample format and playback timing while watching quantization, reconstructed voltage, buffer refills, CPU cost, and underruns.
PCM BUFFERDMADACANALOG OUT
OPEN INSTRUMENT CARTRIDGE BUS + BANK SWITCHING
Single-step reads and mapper writes while tracing CPU addresses through a bank register to physical ROM bytes.
CPU ADDRESSMAPPERROM ADDRESSDATA
OPEN INSTRUMENT HOW GAMES FIT + LOAD
Compare cartridges, discs, an original Xbox hard drive, game cards, HDDs, and SSDs by physical size, capacity, and visible loading time.
GAME DATAMEDIUMREAD / INSTALLPLAY
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