Ten Points Random

So, my DDR pads, you know, the ones my friend and I built from scratch? (Todo, post pages on them.)
Yeah, they broke – again. Okay, one still works fine but the other isn’t. That makes me angry. Pissed. Unhappy.

How much is a Cobalt Flux?

Date completed: 3/1/2009
Details:
My home teaching companion is usually pretty good about scheduling some appointments for the first or second week of the month.  Well, this week he managed to get all but one of our families scheduled ahead of time.  Then we lost a family as things got rearranged and worked another family into the time slot.   Then we have to move an appointment back because someone was ill, so we were able to get the final individual scheduled at the start.  All appointments went through.

That was interesting.

And good.

After playing games like Team Fortress 2, Little Big Planet, and ultimately, Achievement Unlocked, I began to wonder:

What would life be like if it had achievements?

So, I’ve decided that whenever I manage to do something in my life that sounds like it’d be an achievement in a game of some sort or another, I’ll go ahead and post it up.

Is it just me o ram I letting my life get rather boring?

So here’s what I got:

The whole thing plugs in via USB and acts like a regular joystick – the four pedals are four different axises on the controller.

And the whole thing is pegged onto a circutboard from a regular controller.

Edit: FYI, the foot pedals I found at a thrift store. After tearing away the unwanted/unneeded parts, they were screwed to a piece ‘o wood. Some buttons were purchased and, after making the appropriate holes, they were also attached.

The use of an existing controller had some disadvantages: the board I used has a hardware dead zone that makes no sense with pedals and makes them pretty much unusable.