The P5 Glove is a consumer wired glove (tactile but not haptic). I bought one boxed as-new on eBay a while ago for not very much, and I’m glad I did as they now seem to be increasingly hard (and expensive) to get hold of. It contains five analog bend sensors, 3 buttons plus […]
Category Archives: tangible interfaces
Whiteboard Pong
Tangible interfaces strike again. Not content with playing music with a yo-yo, I’ve knocked up a first pass at an augmented reality game of pong on a whiteboard. Here, I play pong with two whiteboard erasers. On a whiteboard. A camera watches the scene and a quick hacky Processing app (via reacTIVision and some OSC messages) […]
Yo-yo tuning; tangible audio
I’ve been thinking about augmented reality and tangible stuff in relation to music recently. A while ago I hacked together a RFID reader and rotary encoder (using cheap-ish off the shelf USB kit from Phidgets) into a virtual knob. Ian captured me giving a quick (“it’s me knob demo!“) demonstration in the office a couple […]
It’s me knob demo! – RFID reader + rotary encoder = virtual physical control
Thanks to Ian for recording this: I used a Phidgets RFID kit, a rotary encoder and Reaper.