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Valerie from iPortion was the first to send me a link to this video game bike controller.

• I Make Projects – VR Bike Simulator

I was so excited about it, but the specifications looked out of my league, so I emailed Mike, my personal hack-king. This project is very clever, but the components probably won’t stand up to heavy duty use. If you ride your exercise bike as much as I do during the winter, then you’ll probably have to reattach or readjust parts of this controller from time to time. You may even need to replace the most vulnerable components with repeated use.

More importantly, my house is very small, so my exercise bike sits in the living room. There’s no way that I’m going to let a Frankenstein video game controller sit in the living room with the Christmas tree and the puffy pillows. Sadly, I’m far too vain to even try this really cool controller, but that doesn’t mean that people with bigger houses can’t make something like this work. It might be ugly, but it looks like it works pretty well.