needs more powerglove

Posted at 3:24 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by cyanide

what he said^

Posted at 3:36 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by Thomascpp

I third the notion ^^

Posted at 4:54 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by McSquid

i second the third notion^^

Posted at 5:29 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by roshamboe

I second the third and fourth notion^^

Posted at 6:05 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by cyrozap

i’ll go ahead and second the second of the third motion. also, I’d like to file a new motion that we stop fucking with tetris, which was already perfect decades ago.

Posted at 6:07 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by amk

I second the new motion, and second the second of the third and fourth motions.

Posted at 6:16 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by pongor

I motion for a new set of notions in parallel with the first notion.

Posted at 6:32 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by byohazrd

The best alternative interface for tetris, it seems to me, would be a jog dial. Maybe a joystick and a jog dial.

Posted at 7:03 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by calebkraft

two jog dials for tetris would be fucking awesome.

Posted at 7:25 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by sarsface

All in favor of the second, third, and forth notion (and the seconding of each respectively) : say aye.

Posted at 7:38 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by McSquid

Aye!

Posted at 7:41 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by Neko

I want this for my computer so i can do shit Electric Church style!

Posted at 8:12 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by weeee

looks like someone else beat them to it!

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigembedded/eoh2006.html

Posted at 9:05 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by john

Finally, I can strap this on and play Tetris wth my pecker !!

Posted at 11:21 pm on Jun 3rd, 2009 by Bill Hates

What, no “so bad” comments?

Hackaday, I am disappoint.

Posted at 2:10 am on Jun 4th, 2009 by Rawrl

Another Caleb Kraft post. He’s good at picking out the mundane. Krafty Caleb occasionally has good posts, but often these are comparable to his ridiculous “Shoe Cell Phone” post.

This project is a huge waste of time — it’s obvious that out of the “I second the notion of the 4th notion of the 3rd notion that notions the 2nd notion of the 1st” comments this is like trying to reinvent the wheel — the PowerGlove was released in what…the late 80’s or early 90’s? I had one as a kid…and it controlled a lot more than tetris, and it would have saved these guys a ton of time to just reverse-engineer a power glove with a USB port and build an input driver controller.

Apparently this version uses a wireless connection instead of that clunky old PowerGlove sensor that wrapped around half of the TV, so I’d suppose that’s a plus.

Leave it to college kids when it comes to wasting time. ;p

Posted at 10:47 am on Jun 4th, 2009 by supershwa

@supershwa
Do you think I put interesting posts aside in favor of more mundane posts? Submit something better and I’ll happily publish it.

as far as this project is concerned, it was immediately compared to the power glove because it is on their hand. It uses a completely different technology (accel vs sonar). These people built a really cool input device that uses accelerometer data and simply chose a fairly boring way to show it off. They could have done any number of other uses that didn’t involve holding your hand in front of the TV, and thus would have avoided the comparison. Cut them some slack.

Posted at 10:59 am on Jun 4th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

@ supershwa

cut some slack man,
not everything on here has to have some huge point in life.
chillax
i like caleb’s krafty thinking

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jun 4th, 2009 by woopus

I wonder if “Natal” has anything to do with Project Natal’s release date, because it means Christmas in Portuguese.

Posted at 1:06 pm on Jun 4th, 2009 by douro20

I love the powerglove. It’s so bad.

Posted at 2:44 pm on Jun 8th, 2009 by vwaf