Comments on: Gesture controlled tetris

By: vwaf

vwaf — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:44:44 +0000

I love the powerglove. It’s so bad.

By: douro20

douro20 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:06:24 +0000

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

By: woopus

woopus — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:08:08 +0000

@ supershwa

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

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:59:24 +0000

@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.

By: supershwa

supershwa — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:47:50 +0000

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

By: Rawrl

Rawrl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:10:57 +0000

What, no “so bad” comments?

Hackaday, I am disappoint.

By: Bill Hates

Bill Hates — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:21:03 +0000

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

By: john

john — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:05:22 +0000

looks like someone else beat them to it!

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

By: weeee

weeee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:12:20 +0000

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

By: Neko

Neko — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:41:50 +0000

Aye!

By: McSquid

McSquid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:38:25 +0000

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

By: sarsface

sarsface — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:25:29 +0000

two jog dials for tetris would be fucking awesome.

By: calebkraft

calebkraft — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:03:26 +0000

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

By: byohazrd

byohazrd — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:32:57 +0000

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

By: pongor

pongor — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:16:43 +0000

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