Thanks for your replies. I'll do some more research and get back to you

Again, sorry for my noobishness, my computing background never extended to the electronics side of it and this is a whole new level for me.

I'm with plugwash "An alternative approach may be to use a microcontroller to scan the pads and then pass the data over a common interface (uart serial is probablly easiest) to the Pi. The advantage of this approach is you don't have to worry about linux messing up your timing." Add a cheap microco...

Thanks for the reply :) Forgive me for I am a noob to the uber technical side of such things, what is meant by having GPIO peripherals 'scan'? As regards voltage, is this a setting that can be changed in the boot config file? I also have a bluetooth dongle connected for Sixaxis PS3 controllers in ca...

I'm building a Pi NES and was inspired by initmaster's NES build that had NES, SNES and Genesis controller ports on it. My question is, is it feasible to connect 3 sets of ports to the GPIO pins on a B+ or would I need an extender/hub? I'm sure there would be voltage issues. I'm also connecting the ...

Just tried on my Model B+ 20140929_210147.jpg Works for me! My issue before this very kind update from rromo12 was that it wouldn't detect a keyboard upon first boot (and thus couldn't start the install process, so thumbs were twiddled) I love the short boot time (except the video, but that can be c...

Since no one had done so yet and I had free time I went a head and did an rpi-update for those of you trying to get this on the B+. I did a quick test on my B+ and it was booting so it should work but I didn't test much. This is a 2gb image. Ultraslim_1.6_B+.7z http://www.mediafire.com/download/d5k...

Looking forward to UltraSlim 2.0. Hopefully the non-detecting keyboard error will be fixed for the Model B+.

Excellent work all round

Hello there, my name's James and I've just recently discovered the Raspberry Pi phenomenon. I'm a complete newbie at Linux and general command line computing so I'll be on here a lot looking for helpful snippets provided by you kind people. At the moment I'm working on a Pi NES (which many people ha...