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A list of resources for creating alternative controllers, playful installations and physical-digital hybrids.
https://github.com/enricllagostera/altctrls-info
- Tinycade - A tiny arcade for alternative controller games, and the tools to make them, using only a smartphone. Made by [Peter Gyory, Clement Zheng, Dylan Turner, Perry Owens, Ellen Do, Allison Palmer, Rhys Ruefort](https://tinycade.github.io/tinycade-homepage/). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- Burn The Keyboard workshop - A workshop on quickly creating three custom controllers out of affordable and easily available materials. Made by [Joon](https://joon.be/). Price: Free.
- Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - A blog about alternative controller games and playful installations design. Made by [Tatiana Vilela dos Santos](http://mechbird.fr). Price: Free.
- Installation Required - The incredible potential of custom controllers. - An article about the creative process and possibilities of making alternative game controllers. Made by [Alex Johansson](https://alexvscoding.itch.io/). Price: Free.
- Installation Required - Why you should build an arcade cabinet for your game. - A great article about different challenges and factors involved in designing a custom cabinet for a game. Made by [Alex Johansson](https://alexvscoding.itch.io/). Price: Free.
- Make Your Own Slot Machine - A guide on making coin-operated machines. Made by [Tim Hunkin](http://www.underthepier.com/index.htm). Price: Free.
- Queering Control(lers) Through Reflective Game Design Practices - A great article on how controls are key to changing the hegemonic status quo of mainstream game design, from a queer perspective together with critical design. Made by [Jess Marcotte](http://jeka.games). Price: Free.
- Videogames That Go Squish - A very insightful article about designing physical-digital games. Made by [V Buckenham](http://v21.io/). Price: Free.
- Adaptive Design Learning Library - Didactic and very detailed guide for building with cardboard. Made by [Adaptive Design Association Inc.](https://www.adaptivedesign.org/). Price: Free (they accept donations to support their work on adaptive design).
- Recipes for conductive and non-conductive dough - You can use these to create soft surfaces and malleable circuits for your games. Made by [Squishy Circuits](https://squishycircuits.com/). Price: Free.
- PVC Construction - Very practical guide about constructing things with PVC pipes: a lightweight and affordable material. Made by [trevormates](https://www.instructables.com/member/trevormates/). License: CC-BY-NC-SA. Price: Free.
- The Complete and Utter Beginner’s Guide to Worbla - A guide on safety procedures and how to use Worbla. Made by Worbla. Price: Free.
- Worbla - This is a thermoplastic used often for making costumes and cosplay props. It can be hand-molded when heated and is easy to prime and finish. Made by Worbla. Price: 29 USD for a small sheet.
- All About Circuits - A website with textbooks, video lectures and a variety of materials about electronics. Made by EETech. Price: Free.
- Arduino Uno - A versatile board that has a good balance between number of connections, simplicity, and tons of libraries, examples, and compatible platforms. Made by [Arduino](https://www.arduino.cc/). License: 22 USD. Price: Open-source hardware.
- BlueHID - A wireless (Bluetooth) board for creating HID (human-interaction devices, like mouse, joysticks and keyboards). Made by [Ultimarc](http://www.ultimarc.com/). Price: 43 USD.
- Itsy Bitsy 32u4 - A small Arduino-compatible board that can simulate joysticks, mouse, keyboard, MIDI and other input devices. It is an affordable option for making controllers for games when you cannot change the game's original programming. Made by [Adafruit](https://www.adafruit.com/). Price: 10 USD.
- Makey Makey - A board that turns low-current connections into keypresses and mouse events, without changing any software. Great for turning bananas into keyboards. Made by [JoyLabz](https://joylabz.com/). Price: 50 USD.
- Micro:bit - A small board with built-in accelerometers, compass and radio. It features a block-based visual programming system and can connect via USB and Bluetooth. Made by BBC. Price: 27 CAD.
- Teensy 3.2 - A versatile board that can simulate HID (human-interaction devices) and is compatible with many libraries. It features lots of pins in a small size. Made by [PJRC](https://www.pjrc.com/). Price: 20 USD.
- Touch Board - A board for capacitive touch (create circuits with no grounding) and distance sensing, compatible with Arduino. Made by [BareConductive](https://www.bareconductive.com/). Price: 53 GBP.
- U-HID - A board for creating HID (human-interaction devices, like mouse, joysticks and keyboards), with software for assigning each pin without programming firmware. Made by [Ultimarc](http://www.ultimarc.com/). Price: 69 USD.
- Android Sensors for Unity - A plugin for using Android sensors with Unity (versions before 2019.1) beyond the ones exposed by the engine. The new Unity's input system makes this much easier on versions after 2019.1. Made by [mmeiburg](https://github.com/mmeiburg). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- Ardity - An easy-to-use and setup serial port plugin for Unity. Made by [dwilches](https://github.com/dwilches). License: CC-BY. Price: Free.
- GDSerialAsset - A plugin for sending and receiving serial port messages in the Godot game engine. Made by [Supwerwaitsum](https://github.com/Superwaitsum). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- How to Integrate Arduino with Unity - A well-written and detailed tutorial that includes easy to adapt examples. Made by [Alan Zucconi](https://www.alanzucconi.com/). Price: Free (Alan has a Patreon here: <https://www.patreon.com/AlanZucconi>).
- MidiJack - A small library for receiving and sending MIDI messages in Unity. Made by [keijiro](https://github.com/keijiro). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- OscJack - A small library for receiving and sending OSC messages in Unity. Made by [keijiro](https://github.com/keijiro). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- Enjoy2 - A small OSX program to map controller inputs to keyboard and mouse events. Made by [Yifeng Huang](http://nongraphical.com/). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- HTML5 Gamepad Tester - A web page that displays gamepad information in compatible browsers. Helpful when creating custom gamepads or debugging. Made by [Ben Wiklund](https://github.com/bwiklund). Price: Free.
- JoyToKey - A desktop software that converts inputs from gamepads and joysticks to keyboard and mouse. Made by [JTKSoft](https://jtksoft.net/ja/). License: Shareware. Price: Free trial and 7 USD for continued use.
- Sensors2OSC - An Android application that sends data from the phones' sensors to any device via WiFi and OSC messages. Made by [SensorApps](https://github.com/SensorApps). License: [Available here](https://sensors2.org/osc/#license). Price: Free.
- Xbox 360 Controller Emulator - A software that emulates a XBox 360 controller on Windows, letting other devices be usable in games that only support that controller. Made by [TocaEdit](https://github.com/x360ce/x360ce). Price: Free.
- Johnny-Five - A JavaScript library for accessing boards and sensors. Made by [Bocoup and contributors](http://bocoup.com/). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- Beholder - A JavaScript library for detecting markers and using them in tangible interfaces and alternative controllers. Made by Peter Gyory and ATLAS Institute.
- p5.beholder - A JavaScript library for the p5.js system. This companion library facilitates the creation of quick tangible interfaces with marker-tracking and computer vision. Made by [Enric Granzotto Llagostera](https://enric.llagostera.com.br/). License: MIT. Price: Free.
- Web Gamepad API - A detailed explanation with examples on how to use gamepads in browsers using Javascript. Made by [Mozilla and MDN contributors](https://wiki.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API/Using_the_Gamepad_API$history). License: [Available here](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/MDN/About#Copyrights_and_licenses). Price: Free.
- gambi_abo - A series of free do-it-yourself game controllers made of cardboard and mouse, keyboards and gamepads.. Made by [Enric Granzotto Llagostera](https://enric.llagostera.com.br/). License: CC-BY-SA. Price: Free.
- Red Dirt - A narrative game using smartphone magnetic sensors, made in Unity, using [Sensing Gestures](https://github.com/enricllagostera/SensingGestures). Made by [Enric Granzotto Llagostera](https://enric.llagostera.com.br/). License: LGPLv3. Price: Free.
- [alt.ctrl - A series of videos [alt.ctrl] is a series of videos about alternative controller game and playful installation making. Made by [Tatiana Vilela dos Santos](http://mechbird.fr). Price: Free.
- The Secret Life of Components (video series) - A series of very thoughtful videos by TIm Hunkin, where he shares his knowledge and experience on a variety of mechanical, electric and electronic components. Great examples from his electromechanical arcade machines. Made by [Tim Hunkin](https://www.timhunkin.com/). Price: Free.
- Beyond Screens (series of interviews) - A series of interviews with altctrl creators, hosted by Alistair Aitcheson and Tatiana Vilela dos Santos, on the IndieCade Twitch channel. Made by [Alistair Aitcheson; Tatiana Vilela dos Santos](https://www.indiecade.com/beyond-screens/). Price: Free.
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