You probably remember PCB Heaven for the PC Failure Alarm from earlier this year. Giorgos Lazaridis of PCB Heaven has just completed his next project, it is a Custom Men of War Game Console! I am not much of a gamer but I can see how this custom controller would make game play a piece of cake. All of the controls that you need for rapid game play are right there for easy access. The case looks very nice, Giorgos designed a 3D model of the case and cut it on a CNC machine. The back of the case is a piece of acrylic which is lit with a few high brightness LEDs, this allows the outer bottom edge of the controller to have a nice glow. If that wasn’t enough there is a circuit which changes the glow brightness when a button is pressed. In the video you can see that the brightness slowly fades back to a dim level once the key is released, I assumed that this was being done using PWM directly from the microcontroller but there is actually an analog circuit that is providing this effect. Interesting in making one yourself? You can get the microcontroller code here.
Thanks for sharing your project Giorgo!
