Hand it to Heck: The Xbox 360 one-handed controller

15 Comments by Kevin Kelly Dec 4th 2006 4:45PM
Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Wireless, Microsoft Xbox 360

Hackmeister Übergeneral Ben Heckendorn has whipped up a handy (pun!) one-handed Xbox 360 controller, perfect for The Fugitive dude or folks who are busy multitasking. This isn't for the faint of heart, but if you've got a bit of a bug to try it out yourself, roll up your sleeves and give it a go.

Seriously, is there anything this guy can't do? The thing is wireless, AND has both rumble controllers inside of it (take that, SIXAXIS!). Between this and the Xbox 360 laptop, he's a one-man hacking machine. Really. We're convinced the guy is a robot himself, with no organic parts left inside.

[Via The Xbox Domain]

Tags: 360, Ben Heck, controller, hack, Heckendorn, one hand, one handed, one-hand, one-handed, PlayStation 3, PS3, SIXAXIS, wireless, Xbox 360, Xbox360

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aj: Dec 4th 2006; 4:49PM

ahh the old recycle the engadget post routine.. pure gineus!11

Unimental: Dec 4th 2006; 5:01PM

That's a great piece of work to help out the disabled gaming crowd! I'm surprised the rumble is included, however, as I would imagine that may result in some instances of dropping the control. A+ work aside from my concern.

get over it: Dec 4th 2006; 5:16PM

this is pretty cool... i used to play socom with a guy who only had the full use of one hand and often wondered why disabled gamers were overlooked by the gaming companies.
the wii controls look like they may be more disabled friendly than anything i've seen so far by any of the console manufacturers.

Nushio: Dec 4th 2006; 5:17PM

This one's for DOAX2, me thinks...

icelandman: Dec 4th 2006; 5:19PM

Though recycled, there is something to be said about this kind of innovation, especially when it can benefit people who don't have full use of one arm, especially our soldiers in Iraq. Not to mention, it could be a cool mechanic all on its own, think about two of these controllers at once finally allowing us to duel wield weapons with targeting reticles that are independent of each other, eh?

~PEACE
-Johann

nijah: Dec 4th 2006; 5:19PM

What a waste, now if he could gut a 360 controller and and turn it into a PS3 controller then i'll gladly have his babies

azesino: Dec 4th 2006; 5:53PM

This controler is for people like you.... the DOAX2 crowd that are reading this , Exellent for manouvering while wackig your ham

playclever: Dec 4th 2006; 6:01PM

I was just wondering the other day what I'd do to get my gaming fix if I lost an arm. I had non-nunchuk Wii games down as my only hope. There is another! :)

OpNickC: Dec 4th 2006; 6:11PM

". . . one-handed Xbox 360 controller, perfect for The Fugitive dude or folks who are busy multitasking."

or DOAX2. . .

: Dec 4th 2006; 6:17PM

Yay, just in time for DOX2!

Iced_Eagle: Dec 4th 2006; 6:20PM

Yea I thought this was a double post to a Joystiq article... Silly Engadget tho :-\

Jose: Dec 4th 2006; 6:33PM

Well, since DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball came out, I think the community has been in desperate need of a one handed controller.

Imadogg: Dec 4th 2006; 8:06PM

Hooray for the 5 DOAX jokes!

On another note, BenHeck is damn amazing. Seriously, he can do ANYTHING with a controller...

rokobungi: Dec 4th 2006; 8:42PM

there's already a 1 handed ps2 controller I saw on lik-sang (probably will never find it in the US now....) aimed at rpg players so they can eat and drink and anything else while playing (hmm if I made a WOW 1 handed wireless controller I might be a millionaire.)

Mephistopheles: Dec 4th 2006; 9:30PM

If I had two of them I could play against myself in split-screen! Ha ha ha, who is better, left brain or right brain?

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