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Exercise Bike Video Game Controller-Part-1...The Plan

This video is part 1 of a several part series to show how I converted my stationary exercise bike into a video game controller so that I can use it to play just about any PC game while I am exercising. It uses an Infra-red sensor to detect when I am peddling and translates that into a keyboard keypress that gets sent into the game that is running in the foreground of Windows. I am also using a Nintendo Wii remote bluetooth controller to map additional key presses to give more options during game play. A proof of concept picture that demonstrated this will work was done on 12/7/2025. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17yMT... 12/8/2025 - After the proof of concept worked, the corresponding detailed software data flow diagram became more complicated showing that I am reusing a lot of third party programs (orange bubbles) in my final solution. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eGxv... 12/10/2025 - All of my parts arrived today in the mail and my demo successfully worked by playing Neverwinter Nights. Everything worked and the game play was surprisingly good. A few notes about the final implementation that are different than the initial plan in the video: The IR sensor I got did not have an open collector output so I did have to follow the schematic for it on Amazon to get it to work by pulling it high through a 10K ohm pull-up resistor. That required me to then use a Polulu Inc. 5V to 3V level shifter to convert the signal down to 3V for input into the FT232H board. I highly recommend the level shifters from Polulu. They work good. The Adafruit FT232H board did not just plug and play install its device driver into windows. I had to use Zadig to replace the windows default device driver for it with Winusb. I also had to install the libusb.dll in the python.exe folder to get python to work with the pyftdi library. I did not buy special IR reflective tape. I tried aluminum foil and silver reflective furnace tape. The furnace tape was a little smoother (less wrinkly) so I ended up using it. Both worked though to reflect the IR beam. I attached the tap to a 1" wide thin stip of cardboard and then taped that onto my pedal wheel at the top and bottom making sure the tape did not cut across where the IR beam would intersect my foil strip. I did not have to write a single line of code to implement this. I used mostly third party programs I reused from other people. Then, Copilot AI wrote the whole python program I used. Copilot also did most of the research in identifying what third party programs to use. It took a very long conversation with it but I documented what we finally came up with. The final solution worked very good. Copilot did a good job with this. Below is my final setup. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lhvr... Warning. I have a recumbent exercise bike. There is very little chance of me falling out of my chair when I take my hands off the handle bars to use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controller. If you have an upright bike, please be careful and adjust this plan to be safe.