October 12, 2012

Make your own 3D hand controller with Arduino

 For an interesting and somewhat futuristic form of user input, consider the following 3D controller. Using three aluminium-covered squares   as capacitive sensors (one for each axis), Kyle McDonald has a very neat system that can roughly determine the position of your hand within the open cube. To take advantage of this, he has included a processing sketch to demonstrate monitoring the controller by a PC, for example:


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