Briannaforbescrowe. Add%20Multiple%20Activities%20to%20Your%20DPA%20Log_demo. Turn your iPhone into an IR camera. Strange Wiimote camera… Patrick van der Poel wrote to me with some pictures of what he found when he opened up a Wiimote recently. Instead of the normal Pixart sensor he found a strange daughter-board configuration. It looks very easy to remove, but it’s nothing like the regular sensor. Fortunately they labelled the board pinouts on the underside of the host so it was easy to work out where the correct pins were.
Patrick tells me that the Wiimote came from the Japanese market. Anyone know anything about this configuration? 85 inch Wiimote IWB (Interactive Whiteboard) Rear Projection Setup. Solar Cricket. In this project you’ll take two simple ideas — a classic “cricket” noisemaker and a solar battery charger — and combine them into something great. Along the way you’ll also learn how to use the Arduino microcontroller as efficiently as possible for minimal power consumption. Solar panels create electricity, of course — we’ll take that raw power and add a battery charging circuit to top up a 9V NiMH battery that powers the Arduino. But you can also use solar panels to detect ambient light — so in this project we’ll also use them as sensors to trigger the Arduino to perform a task when it detects that night has fallen.
What task? Making cricket noises! Your Solar Cricket will draw its power from the sun during the day and then use it at night to do its stuff. It’s fun for your garden, or for pranks — the circuit can be hidden away and used to drive someone crazy looking for the source of the sound! The WiiMote and FEZ Domino | Robotics / Electronics / Physical Computing. Gestural Interaction in the Operating Room with a Wii Remote and Kinect. A rendering of an operating room of the future, with Tamara’s devices installed. Student Tamara Worst has completed a fascinating project with Interaction Design group IxD Hof, in cooperation with Siemens Healthcare, that frees doctors from using their hands for menial tasks during operations. Siemens was looking for a non-contact interaction solution for surgeons in the operating room, so Tamara used two 3D sensors, a Wii remote and Microsoft Kinect, to detect the orientation and position of the surgeon’s right foot. She then wrote software in Processing to allow them to view and manipulate images and 3D models without the use of their hands.
A Wii Remote attached to the right shoe. In the future Tamara hopes to replace the bulky remote with a single accelerometer. The Wii remote and Kinect sensor each accomplish a different task – the Wii remote measures the orientation of the doctor’s foot, allowing precise control over the view and orientation of images and models. Image Actions: Poppy: Turn Your iPhone into a 3D Camera by Ethan Lowry & Joe Heitzeberg. What is it? Poppy lets you capture and share the world the way you really experience it: in three dimensions. Have you ever wished you could record a moment, and share it so someone else could feel like they were there, too? Well, now you can. Poppy is the first device in the world that turns an iPhone into a 3D camera capable of capturing, viewing and sharing full-motion, full-color video and stills in 3D. Poppy works with iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5 and the fifth generation iPod Touch. When you look in the viewfinder, Poppy’s lenses combine the two video streams into a single, crisp, 3D video.
It doesn't need batteries and there are no electronics. Put your iPhone in Poppy and you can view 3D videos and photographs. Poppy is great for capturing events like weddings and for action sports, or for just playing with your kids in the backyard. There are other possibilities too, like real estate and architectural walk-throughs, science, education, augmented reality, art and more. It's sleek. PUSH: The first fitness tracking device that measures strength.
Force, power, velocity. Decades of research in sport science have established that these three metrics lay at the core of strength training. PUSH is the first fitness device that allows you to track and analyze these metrics, ensuring that your training is optimized. How does it work? PUSH tracks how your body is performing at a certain weight and provides insights to help you optimize the load.
Not moving the bar fast enough? PUSH does more: use your iPhone or Android device to create or download routines, or just walk into the gym and train. "PUSH is hoping to add some professionalism to what is essentially an amateur space. " – Techcrunch "New fitness tracker helps athletes push their limits at the gym. " – Mashable "PUSH has gained interest from dozens of top-tier athletes, trainers, and teams in the NFL, NHL, MLB, European soccer leagues, and MMA leagues.
"Knowing your strengths, weaknesses and limits at the gym can be tricky [...] Want to learn more? We will soon begin the process of: Mental Sensor Proyect. Mental Block reads the users Alpha and Beta waves. It translates the Alpha waves to illumination on the wearer's face. The more mentally present, the brighter the wearer's face. Beta waves are translated to the rotation of a polarized filter disk. If both wearers' beta waves are on the same frequency, they can see each other clearly.
The more the wearers' mental states differ from each other, the more obfuscated users' faces become from each other. We started off by building three headsets, the system was designed to scale to any number of users, growing the number of potential connections quadratically. To gain access to human brainwaves we hacked Star Wars Force Trainers produced by Uncle Milton Toys. There are a few applications we wanted to go with: a performative application, a meditative one and a fun, user-oriented one. Two painters compare brain states Mental Block system schematic for one unit.
The Star Wars Force Trainer we had to buy a lot of these. Wii Remote IR Camera Hack with Arduino Interface. You'll need a Wii remote or "Wiimote" to start with. Normally they are about $40, in the end that is not too bad for a pretty awesome sensor. Otherwise you can check out ebay or elsewhere for used or broken Wii remotes. You'll need to rip apart the case. It has some crazy three pronged screws. I didn't want to completely trash the case so I made a small tool to take it apart. Now you need to desolder the 8 pins and the 2 struts holding the camera on the board.
I used some desoldering braid. How to use desoldering braid: You might want to keep the rest of the parts.