We sent our first commands to the 3DS!

📅 27 Aug 2022 - lipe-dev

Huge news!

After quite a bit of trial and error with the wires inside the 3DS, we are finally able to send an input to it!

So far, I only soldered in wires for the D-Pad and the XABY buttons, for testing.

Now that we have a working arduino sketch that is able to read inputs from a gamecube controller and send them to the 3DS, we are almost there!

Words can’t express how happy I’m feeling with this right now.

Next Steps

Now that we got to this point, here are the next milestones I’ll try reaching:

Wiring all inputs
Wiring a Bluetooth Receiver! That’s right, I just changed the whole project! Now we will also support bluetooth controllers. Wish me luck.
Figure out the strategy for working with the plethora of buttons of the new 3DS (WE NEED MORE PINS!)
Make some automated bots/programmable macros and stuff. This will be awesome.

Let’s fucking go!