MacBook Marionette
Most puppets scare me. Horrid little creatures, only coming alive when controlled by some being of perceived omnipotence manipulating every aspect of their pathetic little lives. But enough about my puppet paranoia, and on to this awesome hack. Some cunning (and brave! I'd never swing my notebook around like that!) soul has created a piece of digital artwork using the motion sensor built into his PowerBook. When he swings the machine, a little animated man on the screen reacts with realistic physics to the movement. Hooray for digital inertia!
[via UneasySilence]
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11-23-2006 @ 11:12AM
JT said...
No isight = powerbook
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11-23-2006 @ 11:36AM
Mark said...
Here is a challenge. Could someone write an application/screen saver that made it look as if the screen on a MBP was full of water? When you moved the MBP around the water sloshed around in a realistic manner? Maybe moving the on screen icons around. How about leaving a high water tide mark. :-)
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11-23-2006 @ 11:38AM
e:leaf said...
Re: JT
which means . . . absolutely nothing. Some of the later Powerbooks have a motion sensor.
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11-23-2006 @ 11:44AM
andy said...
using the motion sensor built into his PowerBook
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11-23-2006 @ 12:16PM
Adrian vG said...
Realistic you said? How come the body (not the legs and arms) are THROWN to the sides of the screen when the puppeteer just slightly tilts the PB? Cool idea, though. Don't scratch the screen!
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11-24-2006 @ 1:17AM
fetchy said...
im more impressed with the zip-tie "chain" that they created... ha
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11-24-2006 @ 7:24AM
Eric said...
Someone did (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/powerbook-digital-marionette-puppet) this with a PowerBook.
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11-24-2006 @ 7:29AM
Eric said...
Oh, sorry, didn't realize it was the same video. I was going by the title of this article to determine that they were different.
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