[] sent in this voice controlled video game project. The idea is simple and honorable: make gaming accessible to the physically limited. [Cyberpyrot] used a voice recognition kit and interfaced it with a bog standard XBox 360 controller. Looks like a fairly easy project if you’re familiar with the pointy end of a soldering iron.
Nice, I bet BenHeck will pounce on this one pretty quick what with his prior experimentation in gaming accessibility (one-handed X-Box controller).
Posted at 5:22 am on Feb 2nd, 2008 by Gadget Hacks
I would like to know how to write a driver for a game controller under Windows XP. I have a CAN to USB converter and i’d like to use my car as a game controller.
Posted at 2:14 pm on Feb 2nd, 2008 by Tom
that would be sick! car as game controller
Posted at 5:27 pm on Feb 2nd, 2008 by dylan
Now see, I’m waiting for when they get to know nerves a little better and make it so that you can link your nervous impulses to the computer – then you won’t need a controller at all. Expand that to work both ways, and you have some authentic force-feedback.
(Speaking of which, where did real force-feedback controllers go, anyway? Not ones that vibrate a little, I mean the big, bulky ones which could kick in a specific direction, based on where you just got hit in the game.)
@3
would that be possible? is there a car that outputs electrical signals based on steering wheel angle, accelerator/brake amount, (stick shift stuff if applicable), etc.? and would it be easily accessible?
at least in my humble experience, a steeling wheel when the car is parked and off doesn’t turn very willingly. (compared to when driving). also, the brake, accelerator, clutch all seem to be quite different when parked or when driving.
i think what i’m trying to say (i know nothing about car mechanics…) is that all of the available “controls” in the car are linked mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically (or however) to other pieces.
of course, I have no experience with car mechanics, so i could be totally wrong, but i think that even if steering/accelerator/etc did output an electrical signal based on their state, they are still linked mechanically to their respective… stuff…
that said, it would be quite neat to see, and i think i saw in popular science a while back some japanese concept car that allowed an in-built driving simulation to interface with the car’s controls.
Posted at 9:10 pm on Feb 2nd, 2008 by joelanders
Yeah, but there are very few cars manufactured that do it, mostly the pure electronic one’s Its called Drive by wire. and its very expensive to get a hold of.
Posted at 2:37 pm on Feb 5th, 2008 by TandemFixation
Most cars have throttle position sensors and any car with abs will have some sort of break position sensor so that leave steering wheel. Cadillac has a car that changes the headlight position a little bit in response to turning, but that doesnât mean it is based off the steering wheel, wheel location or part of the linkage.
Posted at 8:03 am on Feb 6th, 2008 by JKLSemicolon
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Posted at 2:11 am on Feb 2nd, 2008 by Tyler