So you’ve upgraded from your trusty G29 to a fancy direct drive wheel and now you’re stuck with a perfectly good shifter collecting dust? Same here! In this post, I’ll show you how I hacked together a simple adapter using a Raspberry Pi Pico that lets you use that G29 shifter as a standalone USB device. This little weekend project saved me about $300 compared to buying a new shifter—and honestly, it was pretty fun to build.