Hello

Im Robin AKA MactasticMendez from www.acidmods.com i'm the owner of the site. we enjoy modding and one of my staff and friend moddedmatt has made a few custom controllers for people with disabilities heres some links to them:

http://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php/topic,34894.0.html
http://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php/topic,32790.0.html
www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/acidmods-mov...n-xbox-360-controll/

[video width=600 height=361]http://s370.photobucket.com/albums/oo142/moddedmatt/?action=view&current=DSCF2314.flv[/video]

We were wanting to do more of these custom controllers to help people as we believe that everyone should be able to game using whatever console they want, so we are doing some research and have a couple of questions for you:



1 - what games do you play on what devices?

2 - what would you change in a stock Xbox 360 controller to make gaming easier for you?

3 - what would you change in a stock PS3 controller to make gaming easier for you?

4 - what would you change in a stock Wii controller to make gaming easier for you?

5 - what are your main difficulties when when gaming?

6 - Whats your disability?

we would like to know your answers to these questions so that we can come up with and develop several designs for controllers that would help people with gaming.

thanks for all your help

That's fantastic work!

I've been working with a young guy who has muscular dystrophy, and has used an Xbox 360 controller for a long time to do everything from playing games to browsing the web and sending emails. Lately, his hands seem to be losing more strength and range of motion, and they are closed in more, making the Xbox 360 controller too big for him. I haven't been able to find something off-the-shelf that would work for him, and though I've hacked a few controllers, I don't have the experience to do much with a 360 controller, especially to the level of quality that you achieve.

I will try to get more information, or get him here to chat with you himself. His whole world depends on that controller.

His mother was hoping that I could get the two of you in touch via email. I can PM you her address, or you can PM me yours to pass along if you like.

They are really looking for something that might work for him, and nothing else has done the trick yet.

yeh if you pm me her details i will give them to matt who is the guy who did those controllers

Sent. Thanks a million!

awesome - i will pass the message onto matt who has done the previous ones