Add ZX Distance and Gesture Sensor= EtchaSketch Interface?
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Please feel free to move this post. It’s kind of a feature request?
As a teacher I really appreciate the strong way that the Makelangelo makes the cartesian coordinate system concrete.
I have a small activity in which students manually drive the pen to try to make images in x and y. It’s a large etch a sketch activity.I’m wondering what starting point users might recommend for trying to use a gesture sensor (or 2) in the interface, and possibly add continuous motion to the pen. The obvious game that comes to mind is a Tron like game which might automatically add the number of mm the pen moved without overlapping which would also serve as a high score. This game feature would certainly motivate a lot of time on the machine and generate its own publicity.
Example Gesture sensor, which also has a nice pong movie with gesture sensors.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=117&v=lvr1SKRGgqc
Thanks for any insight.https://java.net/projects/jinput might be used for a joystick. JAVA support for newer gesture controllers is often spotty.
It’s an interesting idea. I’ll add it to the list of potential improvements. Thanks!
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