How to be a dinosaur for Christmas

December 21, 2010 By 22 Comments
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Well, this metal suit might not make you a dinosaur, but it would be perfectly possible for you to play one on your computer. Retailing on eBay for a mere $2,397.99 OBO (plus Freight for a 350 pound box), this device was made and used for the motion capture of Ugobe's Pleo Robot. With the right external components (no word on what those are), it would be perfectly possible to get this suit up an … [Read more...]

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Wii nunchuck used for mocap on 3D Studio Max

July 7, 2008 By 6 Comments

If you've been looking for a cheap way to do motion capture on 3D Studio Max, [melka] has devised an ingenious way to do mocap using a Wii nunchuck. As shown in his Vimeo video, the nunchuck is connected to an Arduino that feeds MIDI data to a computer running the MIDI app Ableton Live. Ableton Live feeds that data to 3D Studio Max via MIDI Yoke.The video below the break shows that the motion of … [Read more...]

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