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Galaxy S2 Wiimote Gaming Holder

Hey guys,
I picked up a Galaxy S2 the other day with emulation in mind because of the huge screen, the power and the weight of the device. I got the phone, rooted it, installed the latest MIUI rom 1.7.8 which is fabulous apart from a few kinks. The phone is really responsive and fast and it was an awesome buy. After playing around with it a bit, i tried out some emulators. I found that games which don't require any reactions were playable on the device, and others which needed fast action were just really tough to play, megaman, sonic and mario for example. I bet your thinking "Mario? Action? lol!" well i mean action as in its slightly fast paced, you need to have 100% accuracy when playing the game for it to be effective and efficient on the device, which for me it was not i kept missing buttons and stuff, more importantly my hand covered the whole of mario so i couldn't see him which was a large downside.
So i decided to get the Wiimote working on the device, which is why in the end i rooted the device and installed MIUI because luckily the bluetooth stack for the rom supports the wiimote which is great. And like all the previous phones i had (Nexus One, Desire, iPhone 4) all have Wiimote support but that is no good for on the go playing, and tbh its only good when you have a stand for the phone and a good chair where you can watch the device while playing using the wiimote over bluetooth.
This in my eyes was not practical enough for playing comfortably, so i looked into something else, and discovered these:
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At first glance you think "Thats clever!" and it is clever it gives a solution to having to hold the phone and the wiimote to play. But not being offensive to the creator/designer or anything but they aren't exactly pretty. I tried to make something too but it was a complete fail, it wasn't secure, it looked horrible and it wasn't detachable, so i came up with something better. I was trying to think of a material which was both durable, secure, strong and customisable enough to build a practical solution. Then it hit me: lego.
I present to you, the Galaxy S2 Wiimote Gaming Holder! It's made 100% out of lego (the structure, that is) and connects securely to to wiimote and the phone. The video will tell more.
Here is the link to the full gallery of pictures on my Dropbox account. Theres a total of 33 images to look through.
I hope you guys like this, I can imagine that lots of people would want one of these hehe. If you want one then post and we can sort something out. Theres a few reasons I posted this because I thought you guys would find this interesting and that this can be adapted for other phones as the bass structure is universal to any Wiimote. So there you go. Post comments, suggestions, views and ratings etc i'm eager for feedback

Haha! Classic!

Added the youtube video

how did you manage to pair the wiimote to the galaxy s2? everywhere i look, it says that it doesn't work.

Chef_Tony said:
how did you manage to pair the wiimote to the galaxy s2? everywhere i look, it says that it doesn't work.
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Thats what I thought until i tried MIUI rom. It won't work on the stock roms or other roms based off the stock (thats an educated guess) as the bluetooth stack won't support it. But MIUI does and also CyanogenMOD when the nighties and final get released for this device.

I think the amazing thing here isn't your holder but that you found a way to get the Samsung Galaxy S II working with a Wiimote (no offence to your holder).
I'll have to put a new ROM on my phone so I can use the Classic Controller and the SNES Classic Controller .

Cool man,,,so does this work with all the games?? u know like gameloft's and other games??

I don't think so. But emulators usually allow to map hardware butons so I will be happy just with them

Technically it works with anything that can map hardware buttons, to my knowledge anyway.

have you seen this? hackaday.com/2010/07/29/super-simple-gaming-controller-for-android-or-iphone
it´s already done!

I've never seen that before, but it looks pretty sweet xD. I still prefer mine though. Lego is probably cheaper and much more detachable, and smaller. Nice find though ;p

Actually I was meaning him to give credits to you untill I saw 2010 on the post's date, then edited. Just my fail, sorry

jim dinamita said:
Actually I was meaning him to give credits to you untill I saw 2010 on the post's date, then edited. Just my fail, sorry
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Hehe np

dude...thats awesome!
I think ill make one with plexiglass. I gotta figure out a design now

i think the question is always posed but .. i want to know ... what program you use to play with your wiimote ? many programs on the market say that "newer samsung like SGS or SGS2 don"t work with wiimote"...
thanks !

my diy dock

it has a usb keyboard and wireless mouse and one free usb for memory drives.
made out of orignal tablet box and a old lcd monitor stand also a 3 dollar 3 port usb hub from office depot.
let me know what you think.
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Hey that's pretty cool. Is it solid? Thinking about the height / angle, where do you use it? (coffee table, computer desk etc)

the stand is adjustable so it will go from the coffee table to computer desk no prob and it is realy stable.
i can even rotate the screen and look at it in port mode if im reading or what not.

Could you possibly go more in depth with how you made this i really like it and wouod like to do one myself

That actually looks pretty nifty. I'd also like to see how you did it.

i will get more pictures up today so you can get a general idea of how it was made, it took like 6mins to make.
i will post thepix after i get them in my bucket account.

cmlucht said:
i will get more pictures up today so you can get a general idea of how it was made, it took like 6mins to make.
i will post thepix after i get them in my bucket account.
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Sweet, thanks!

Looks like you Velcro-ed it onto an old PC monitor.
At first I was like, "whaaa?" -but the idea has grown on me.
Well done!

the fit one i jst cut 2 holes in the back of the orignal packaging and put the tabs on the top of the monitor stand in the holes and then glued the rest to the stand.
the 2nd one i glued te keyboard to a small monitor stand to make it look as if floating and to be able to use my mouse under it,
i like the 2nd stand better, and i shortened the usb cable for the keyboard since i dont need wire all over since the tab is sitting right ove it and it also has a usb hub for the wireless mouse and my iphone.

I love it!

Great work indeed. Love to see the DIY mods. I need to do this myself now. Thanks or sharing it.

i think im going to make a book style case for it now.

LOL you stole my idea... I have an old book that is big enough to encase the tab. I'm going to hollow out the pages and glue them together and make some sort of latch/magnetic closure to keep it secure. I think I wanna find a push-n-lock type latch so I just close it and snap it closed, and when I wanna open I squeeze it and it pops open. Still undecided on the locking mechanism but I'll figure something out

I was going to do the same hollow the book and glue pages then I was going to drill 2 holes for magnets and a metal plate a thin one in the cover to keep it closed.
I have not had time to work on it though I'm modding my Mac mini.

My version
I took a different approach:
The black box is the tablet in its case. The monitor is an HP 1850 and it is connected via hdmi with an HP hdmi/vga adapter. The keyboard is a bluetooth from HP's Touchpad fire sale. $25 for the hdmi/vga and $20 for the keyboard.
The monitor I switch on and off with my Acer netbook.
The picture is pretty crappy, but you get what you pay for.

tomlogan1 said:
I took a different approach:
The black box is the tablet in its case. The monitor is an HP 1850 and it is connected via hdmi with an HP hdmi/vga adapter. The keyboard is a bluetooth from HP's Touchpad fire sale. $25 for the hdmi/vga and $20 for the keyboard.
The monitor I switch on and off with my Acer netbook.
The picture is pretty crappy, but you get what you pay for.
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So is it connected via VGA to the monitor?
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Yes, just a standard VGA connector on the monitor connects to the HP hdmi/vga adapter.

tomlogan1 said:
Yes, just a standard VGA connector on the monitor connects to the HP hdmi/vga adapter.
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Got a link to the adapter and no root is needed right? ,plus does it work on any VGA monitor?
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No root is required. I don't know about all of the vga monitors it supports.
Here is a link from the HP store:
http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/computer/categories/cables/1/accessories/NP031AA%23ABA

Possible solution for TV out.

Guys i know there has been alot of talk about TV out and wanting to play games on your TV. Well i've just come across this WiFi to HDMI dongle for your TV's and it looks really cool
http://m.chime.in/user/Bill/chime/92084381799559168
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AndroHero said:
Guys i know there has been alot of talk about TV out and wanting to play games on your TV. Well i've just come across this WiFi to HDMI dongle for your TV's and it looks really cool
http://m.chime.in/user/Bill/chime/92084381799559168
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It's a gimmick.
Stuff like this is made every day like those "VGA to Video converter"
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It's a bare face lie. Just because something says it can do that doesn't mean it will work or be practical
I know for a fact it wont work because the Xperia play is to weak of a device to do it natively you would have to use software decoding and cause major lag not to mention huge battery drain
In the end if you want TV out. buy a Droid X. the best smart phone ever made
(probably the strongest made ever)
it's reminiscent of a IBM magnesium case laptop
you can drive over them with a car and they still function

AndroHero said:
Guys i know there has been alot of talk about TV out and wanting to play games on your TV. Well i've just come across this WiFi to HDMI dongle for your TV's and it looks really cool
http://m.chime.in/user/Bill/chime/92084381799559168
Sent from my R800i using Tapatalk
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Hogwarts said:
It's a gimmick.
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You're both wrong
Thats not a WiFi to HDMI Dongle. Its a mini Roku box. It only streams stuff from the Internet over WiFi. Like Netflix and Hulu, etc.
And Hogwarts, a long post about how another phone is better and to just use that is just about as useless as tits on a bull. If we wanted another phone we would have gotten one, but we like this phone because it has a game pad. We don't care about the Droid X or any other phone.

Rogue Leader said:
You're both wrong
Thats not a WiFi to HDMI Dongle. Its a mini Roku box. It only streams stuff from the Internet over WiFi. Like Netflix and Hulu, etc.
And Hogwarts, a long post about how another phone is better and to just use that is just about as useless as tits on a bull. If we wanted another phone we would have gotten one, but we like this phone because it has a game pad. We don't care about the Droid X or any other phone.
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They y complain about tv out.
end of problem

Hogwarts said:
They y complain about tv out.
end of problem
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We are hoping to come up with a solution, thats why. Especially because Dev units DID have an HDMI out.

I personally don't care about TV out. But the part about "tits on a bull" made me laugh so hard I almost peed.
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I don't care about the TV out or HDMI port.
I think it defeats the purpose of being a mobile gaming phone if it is attached to a TV.

Droid x isnt better becuase it doesnt have a gamepad.
No gamepad = just another cell phone = garbage.

swebosdev said:
Droid x isnt better becuase it doesnt have a gamepad.
No gamepad = just another cell phone = garbage.
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You are for 100% right man. We could get all of the phones we wanted. But we baught this so just f*ck up man go to your own phone(garbage) forum

Hogwarts said:
It's a gimmick.
Stuff like this is made every day like those "VGA to Video converter"
It's a bare face lie. Just because something says it can do that doesn't mean it will work or be practical
I know for a fact it wont work because the Xperia play is to weak of a device to do it natively you would have to use software decoding and cause major lag not to mention huge battery drain
In the end if you want TV out. buy a Droid X. the best smart phone ever made
(probably the strongest made ever)
it's reminiscent of a IBM magnesium case laptop
you can drive over them with a car and they still function
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Dear Droid X user..
Please use the exit door carefully as you can't be run over by a car like your Droid X.
Thank you.

Hogwarts said:
They y complain about tv out.
end of problem
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End of one problem, beginning of a bigger problem..trying to play a game on a touch screen
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I think hogwarts has been watching too much harry potter.
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unless you solder the motherboard to the mini usb then it wont happen that wifi thing looked cool but its prolly bull and theres no special hidden port like some ppl say i watched a dissassembly vid

FULL Ubuntu on our Note - Canonical starts the dream engines :)

Heeey Folks!
I hope that this hasn´t been posted yet (didn´t find anything within the search).
Just have a look right here or here .
This looks so promising to me, that I´m really getting pretty nervous this morning^^
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That is truely awesome I Wonder if there are docking stations out that let you connect both å hdmi screen AND a mouse and keyboard?

I love this idea and it is clever of canonical to ride on the back of the success of Android.
But I'm not sure how I would use it. When I use my computer (which has oneric) I also want to able to use my phone separately.
Perhaps a better solution for me would be to have a standard Ubuntu install that gains phone powers when the phone is docked. It would make apps like airdroid obsolete.
I totally see how other people will have a use for this and I hope it's a huge success.

It's great news
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when, where and how
i want it now

It's an interesting project
I hope it will come to our notes, too.

If you have the dock w/ hdmi out, just use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse or a keyboard w/ built in trackpad. Then pair up bluetooth headphones in case you get a call so you don't lose your desktop. That'd be the easiest imo.
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On Ubuntu we have this requirement:
HDMI: video out with secondary frame buffer device
The Note have this secundary buffer?
Because the HDMI is mirror mode by default.
Anyone with technical knowledge can do a test?
I searched and found this information from another phone:
Primary frame buffer:
/dev/graphics/fb0
Secundary:
/dev/graphics/fb1
Tnks all.

i was thrilled to see this, but would sure love to also occasionally run it while not docked (you know... like a laptop or tablet...). i realize they probably did this due to battery life concerns or something, but hey, why rule it out?

Is our note compatible with this? I do not see a HDMI out!

itismadhan said:
Is our note compatible with this? I do not see a HDMI out!
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MHL to hdmi

celuppi said:
On Ubuntu we have this requirement:
HDMI: video out with secondary frame buffer device
The Note have this secundary buffer?
Because the HDMI is mirror mode by default.
Anyone with technical knowledge can do a test?
I searched and found this information from another phone:
Primary frame buffer:
/dev/graphics/fb0
Secundary:
/dev/graphics/fb1
Tnks all.
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I suspect there probably is a secondary frame buffer given that when watching videos through MHL, the playback controls display on the phone screen but not the TV...

Is there a release schedule?

As much as I love linux, the idea of having to deal with unity again, now trying to spoil my awesome note, makes me shudder ..

great hope to see something huge in coming time

amebasguitar said:
when, where and how
i want it now
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"... feature for late-2012 ..." ?..

Wishnu
Wishnu can do the same right now
xda discussion
official site
And we also can connect to TV via HDMI and to a keyboard and a mouse using USB host
Android Market

This looks killer!
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itismadhan said:
Is our note compatible with this? I do not see a HDMI out!
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our Note's microUSB can be convert to hdmi thanks to the MHL(Mobile High-Definition Link) technology
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jszsj said:
our Note's microUSB can be convert to hdmi thanks to the MHL(Mobile High-Definition Link) technology
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For mhl to work do you have 2 use the second USB port with AC adapter? Is that how it properly coverts USB to HDMI?
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CTRLR holding a 7" tablet

Hi guys,
Been wanting to do this for a long time
Here it is... what a bad boy!!
The tablet is a cheapish chinese mali400 2GBram with hdmi out (hyundai T7s) , I bough instead of the ouya, sooo glad I did to, definitely getting my monies worth!
I got the same apps/emulators setup on here as the MOJO.... obviously it doesn't play as nice, but does okay
Been playing N64, MK4 is smooth, GE 007 and Dest. Durby both playable but laggy (9-30ps).
It's kinda heavy holding it, close to 1kilo as a guess.
It's not to bad if upright and balanced, but when angeled the weight of the tablet is noticeable.
Overall, feels comfortable with the controller, like in front of the TV
It's sturdy but there's a tiny bit of play at the bottom, even with the screw on tight... it's really testing the CTRLR's build quality here! lol
This is da shiz! Very cool,
I did photos as I put it together.. it's just fine rope and a small L bracket with tape wraped around it.
I'll blog it one day soonish..
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Hi,
I've finished my blog post about how I made my 7 inch clip.
http://xpcoin.com/2014/01/14/mojo-shield-a-7-inch-tablet-on-mad-catz-travel-clip
I update it with the support bracket info.

ctrlr disassembled
After using my 7” tablet with the CTRLR, I started to wonder why the CTRLR weighs so much?
So I decided to open it and see.
http://xpcoin.com/2014/01/22/mad-catz-mojo-ctrlr-disassembled/
Next time I'll take better photos!

gwaldo said:
After using my 7” tablet with the CTRLR, I started to wonder why the CTRLR weighs so much?
So I decided to open it and see.
http://xpcoin.com/2014/01/22/mad-catz-mojo-ctrlr-disassembled/
Next time I'll take better photos!
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Hey there is vibration !!!! cool

Dead-neM said:
Hey there is vibration !!!! cool
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Afraid not - those are weights added to improve the balance and feel of the CTRLR.

Will this controller work with HTC One over bluetooth?

suku_patel_22 said:
Will this controller work with HTC One over bluetooth?
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Only with an OTG USB cable, right now (unless you have the unlocked, developer or Google edition, in which case you're fine). As soon as you get the KitKat update then you'll be able to sync directly.

Mad Catz Rich said:
Only with an OTG USB cable, right now (unless you have the unlocked, developer or Google edition, in which case you're fine). As soon as you get the KitKat update then you'll be able to sync directly.
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I have the international unlocked version and running KitKat with Sense 5.5.
So I guess it will work. I want to connect phone to TV using MHL and pair it via bluetooth and have a mini console
Also where can I buy this from?
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suku_patel_22 said:
I have the international unlocked version and running KitKat with Sense 5.5.
So I guess it will work. I want to connect phone to TV using MHL and pair it via bluetooth and have a mini console
Also where can I buy this from?
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Can you disable the screen while on MHL? I hear there's performance issues with even mirroring to mini/micro HDMI?
But yeah that will work.
The retail version controller will be BT2 and BT4 so will work on "any" android/PC device and includes the travel clip
Not sure when it will be out, I hope soon I want another one :fingers-crossed:
I guess on amazon and newegg etc
I don't think they will be cheap either, over $50 for sure.

I've updated my blog, Here's me showing of the beast, thought I'd share with you guys :good:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X1upRc5gNeo