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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JT said 11:12AM on 11-23-2006
No isight = powerbook
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Mark said 11:36AM on 11-23-2006
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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e:leaf said 11:38AM on 11-23-2006
Re: JT
which means . . . absolutely nothing. Some of the later Powerbooks have a motion sensor.
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andy said 11:44AM on 11-23-2006
using the motion sensor built into his PowerBook
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Adrian vG said 12:16PM on 11-23-2006
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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fetchy said 1:17AM on 11-24-2006
im more impressed with the zip-tie "chain" that they created... ha
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Eric said 7:24AM on 11-24-2006
Someone did (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/powerbook-digital-marionette-puppet) this with a PowerBook.
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Eric said 7:29AM on 11-24-2006
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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