Look at this awesome glove. This awesome glove is used to control tetris. Yes, you read that right, it controls tetris. This was a final project at Cornell in the summer of 2008. They built this glove to do gesture controlled tetris. With all the announcements of the PS3 motion device and Microsoft’s project Natal, it’s nice to look back to our very recent past and see some alternative user input. These people are using accellerometer data only, sent to the computer wirelessly.
needs more powerglove
what he said^
I third the notion ^^
i second the third notion^^
I second the third and fourth notion^^
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.
I second the new motion, and second the second of the third and fourth motions.
I motion for a new set of notions in parallel with the first notion.
The best alternative interface for tetris, it seems to me, would be a jog dial. Maybe a joystick and a jog dial.
two jog dials for tetris would be fucking awesome.
All in favor of the second, third, and forth notion (and the seconding of each respectively) : say aye.
Aye!
I want this for my computer so i can do shit Electric Church style!
looks like someone else beat them to it!
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigembedded/eoh2006.html
Finally, I can strap this on and play Tetris wth my pecker !!
What, no “so bad” comments?
Hackaday, I am disappoint.
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
@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.
@ supershwa
cut some slack man,
not everything on here has to have some huge point in life.
chillax
i like caleb’s krafty thinking
I wonder if “Natal” has anything to do with Project Natal’s release date, because it means Christmas in Portuguese.
I love the powerglove. It’s so bad.