I'm with Dan here. It's perfect for capturing arm positions in 3D.
Think "orchestra conductor." We had one opened up here at NYU last
semester for NIME prototyping. It's all geared potentiometers under
the hood and it very accurate.
-Mike
2009/3/17 Daniel Trueman
i gotta just chime in here; i think this controller is awesome! and quite frankly much more interesting that the Wii, which, though wireless, is pretty crude in terms of control. but just my 2 cents! dt On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Robert Poor wrote:
I'm mortally embarrassed to report that the $9.99 controller from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Catz-Real-World-Bundle-Gametrak/dp/B00125V2I6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236093078&sr=8-1 is anything but wireless. It's wire-ful. More like string-ful: the controller sits on the floor and a pair of retracting strings attach to your "golfing gloves" and reel in and out as you swing a tiny golf club. Um, anyone want it? It's yours for the cost of shipping. Or if you live in SF, come by and pick it up. It might make for good performance art, but it's not what I'm looking for. Next mail: related questions about the Wii controllers... - Rob
On 3 Mar 2009, at 08:00, Robert Poor wrote:
[Further apologies for cluttering up the mailing list, etc...] It's a pity, but the orb-like Puzzlesphere appears to be UK-only. I'll report back whether or not the Gametrak / PS2 little golf club is HID compliant after I get it. - Rob On 3 Mar 2009, at 07:48, Kassen wrote:
Rob;
By the way, this may be the same controller that Kassen mentions:
http://www.amazon.com/Catz-Real-World-Bundle-Gametrak/dp/B00125V2I6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236093078&sr=8-1 On sale through Amazon for $9.99 (though shipping makes it more like $19.99). I'm amused by the idea of controlling ChucK by swinging a little golf club over my head, so I ordered one.
Oh, sorry, no, I meant the ones in this series; http://www.amazon.co.uk/IN2GAMES-Realplay-Puzzlesphere-PS2/dp/B000XJ4ZAY
I didn't test the one that you link to but I've been intrigued by that model's positioning sensor as well. On the bright side; that one is by the same company and has USB so my bet would be that it would also be HID compliant, I believe they may have anticipated releasing a game with the same controller for the PC.
The ones marked "Realplay" have been tested by me and some friends and despite not mentioning anything about standards they are known to work without complaints with Linux, Mac and Windows, CK, SC and MAX; that's good enough for me.
I think the plan was to jump on the Wii bandwagon and profit from the Wii shortage and PS2 install base last years holliday season. This failed; the games "shovel ware" but at discounted prices the sensors are very nice indeed. They are quite sensitive with a jitter of about .25% of their range and the range is nicely shaped as normal tilting will stay in the more modest numbers while you need serious heavy shaking to get to the extremes. Multiple identical controllers can be used on a single laptop (at least 2, I have no idea about the max) but the dongles are speciffic per model. Mysteriously the "hat" switch translates to 4 buttons instead of a normal hat and the devices report having two buttons to te host while I can't find those or connections for them on the actual device.
Appologies for going OT but in-depth information on such devices from a perspective like this list's is hard to come by; I had to take a bet on one working because I couldn't find a thing and haven't found a list/forum dedicated to this subject, I hope livecoding purists (does such a person exist?) and those who won't play on anything but weighted hamer-action keys with plyphonic aftertouch will understand ;¬).
I have no shares in this company, BTW, which is probably a good thing.
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