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£10 running-on-the-spot input device trials
Hi all, Yesterday I took a cheap wireless mouse, removed the case and buttons, and wired one after the other the following three inputs (see photos) to the PCB to test. My aim was to try using the ...
What about using a simple wiimote, or even just a regular android or iphone smartphone in your pocket and a FreePIE script. It is not actually "cheap" but considering everyone has a smartphone...
I think there are already a couple scripts around for the wiimote walking/running and even jumping and crouching. Adapting those for a smarphone should be pretty straight-forward.
Edit: BTW I've just reallized that most smarphones have a compass so this could be a great idea. You could potentially measure walking, running, jumping and crouching and even the direction you are going to. The only con is most smarphones' compass is not a 3Dvector one so the yaw measure starts jumping when the device is pointing straight up.
I think there are already a couple scripts around for the wiimote walking/running and even jumping and crouching. Adapting those for a smarphone should be pretty straight-forward.
Edit: BTW I've just reallized that most smarphones have a compass so this could be a great idea. You could potentially measure walking, running, jumping and crouching and even the direction you are going to. The only con is most smarphones' compass is not a 3Dvector one so the yaw measure starts jumping when the device is pointing straight up.