wraggster
July 21st, 2012, 22:15
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Recently, [Alan] broke out the ‘ol Atari 2600 to relive his childhood with a bit of Yar’s Revenge and Adventure, but after looking at his new TI EZ430 Chronos watch, he figured he could add a bit of motion control from this classic game system. He used the accelerometer in this watch to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZBFHLC4U4, an awesome build that really shows off the power of his new wrist worn device.
The watch is running stock firmware and communicates to a PC via an RF module attached to his computer’s USB port. The accelerometer data is fed into a VB.net app to convert the movements of the wrist into up, down, left, and right commands. These commands are then sent out over a serial port to an Arduino to translate those commands into something the Atari joystick port can understand.
Sure, it may be a roundabout way of playing Ms. Pacman, but considering the TI Chronos has been used for very serious work such as stopping SIDS (http://hackaday.com/2012/07/04/ti-chronos-watch-monitor-your-sleeping-infant/) and helping out soccer referees (http://hackaday.com/2012/07/04/fifa-looks-at-electronic-augmentation/), we’re happy to see a more frivolous application for this neat watch.
You can check out [Alan]‘s video after the break, or get the VB and Arduino sourcehere (https://www.box.com/s/8c0d8e6cd782ecf1599a) and here (https://www.box.com/s/9c46d065da86a6800521).
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/20/using-a-watch-to-control-ms-pacman/
Recently, [Alan] broke out the ‘ol Atari 2600 to relive his childhood with a bit of Yar’s Revenge and Adventure, but after looking at his new TI EZ430 Chronos watch, he figured he could add a bit of motion control from this classic game system. He used the accelerometer in this watch to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZBFHLC4U4, an awesome build that really shows off the power of his new wrist worn device.
The watch is running stock firmware and communicates to a PC via an RF module attached to his computer’s USB port. The accelerometer data is fed into a VB.net app to convert the movements of the wrist into up, down, left, and right commands. These commands are then sent out over a serial port to an Arduino to translate those commands into something the Atari joystick port can understand.
Sure, it may be a roundabout way of playing Ms. Pacman, but considering the TI Chronos has been used for very serious work such as stopping SIDS (http://hackaday.com/2012/07/04/ti-chronos-watch-monitor-your-sleeping-infant/) and helping out soccer referees (http://hackaday.com/2012/07/04/fifa-looks-at-electronic-augmentation/), we’re happy to see a more frivolous application for this neat watch.
You can check out [Alan]‘s video after the break, or get the VB and Arduino sourcehere (https://www.box.com/s/8c0d8e6cd782ecf1599a) and here (https://www.box.com/s/9c46d065da86a6800521).
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/20/using-a-watch-to-control-ms-pacman/