Hacking a 3D Printer to Work with NES Controller

Jeff Payeur was a touch frustrated that he had to use mouse clicks to send GCode instructions to his 3D printer, so he did what engineers do: he came up with a better way. Payeur adapted an old Nintendo USB controller and existing software to take care of the task. His solution uses Printrun and a script he wrote to interface with the NES device to all hotkey commands to do the heavy lifting of interfacing with his printer. You can read the whole story here: http://3dprint.com/45940/nintendo-co...er-3d-printer/


Below is a photo of Payeur's system:
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