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Hey, /diy/nosaurs, I have an idea that I wanted to ask you about.

So I bought a couple of the NodeMCU ESP8266 Wifi Development Boards and I already know what I want to do with one of them.

I want to make a sort of "Twitch Plays" setup, but in real life with an actual controller.

Let me greentext this shit so it makes a little more sense and you can get what I want to do:

>Players connect to page that I have set up with the NodeMCU board
>A series of buttons (not toggle switches) are displayed
>When you press a button, say "A" then the "A" button on the controller is pressed.

How feasible is this with the parts I have?

I have an SNES controller, SNES, and copy of Street Fighter 2, along with a shitload of wire, jumpers, soldering iron and a ton of basic electronics like diodes and shit.

I want to solder the GPIO pins from the NodeMCU to the pads of the controller. From my research, buttons on controllers don't necessarily complete a conventional circuit. They connect to a "shift register," which registers when the switch is pulled "LOW" or to ground.

How hard would it be to make a script that, when a push button on a web interface is pressed or held, it presses or holds the button on the controller? All of the tutorials I see are for virtual toggle switches, not virtual momentary switches.

>inb4 "Anything is possible." I know anything is possible, but I want to know if it's possible with what I have.

If you guys have any other questions or tips about what I'm trying to do, please share them.

Also, feel free to share any CURAYZEE ideas you have in this thread and people can talk about feasibility and a good starting point.