[chuck-users] low overhead interpolation trick

[mike clemow]

I have one of those tilt-sensing joysticks...  honestly, they're
pretty bad.  I've had a lot more luck building out my own hardware
with an arduino and a proper accelerometer.  it's a tad more pricey
than the cheap joysticks, but you have the added benefit of reusing
the parts to build all kinds of interfaces to chuck.  I also have some
Python code that reads from the serial bus and sends out OSC messages
to chuck (or anything, really).  Plus hardware hacking is so fun...

I've been trying to get around to releasing some code and
instructions, but school has been getting the better of me.  Let me
know if you want me to share the Python hack.

http://arduino.cc
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=accelerometer&x=0&y=0

cheers,
mike

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:00 PM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I was running out of fingers and buttons on my joypad... who-ever decided
> the thumbs should share both the analogue sticks and the buttons on the top?
> Anyway, I picked up a tilt-sensing joypad. Sadly proper tilt sensors are
> relatively expensive and games devices typically get made as cheaply as
> possible (grumble).
>
>
> I've been thinking of making one of these:
>
> http://www.societyofrobots.com/sensors_mercury_switch.shtml
>
> hth,
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