A Polish developer has a gamepad made for the Linux phone Nokia N900. For the OS of the N900, Maemo 5, there are many game emulators. The gamepad has eight buttons and a PSP joystick to control games.
The gamepad is the phone is seen as a keyboard via usb is attached to it, so he directly works with every game and emulator, says the Polish developer Emeryt. The Pool has an Atmel ATmega8A microcontroller used for the control of the gamepad.
Emeryt has the gamepad further includes a design and not even a case. Also, the buttons wider than the device itself. The Nokia N900 is known as ontwikkelaarstelefoon and running on the Debian variant of Maemo 5. The phone is since the beginning of this year, is no longer in production and the firmware is no longer developed by the manufacturer. The community of developers has the task acquired. Nokia brought this year to the N9, with MeeGo Harmatten, the successor of Maemo 5.
