alt controllers (was powergloves)

[Paul Perry]

At 06:06 AM 21/10/97 -0500, inmate J COTE wrote:

>
>Has anyone built any good CV converters for popular joysticks,
>powergloves, or other household appliances ?
>
>Anything huge and wacky that looks real hot when you perform with it ?
>What about that stomp-pad thing that Nintendo made for it's
>track and field games ?

well i think that if you want cheap, then mercury switches embedded in 
'huge and wacky' things are go.....

I would like to see a baton or mace with accelerometers in it.....the new
accelerometer chips act as tilt indicators when stationary so  you can
get multi dimensional output from a few in a stick... and given time
and energy perhaps an infared linl from it so you dont hsave the bloody 
wire problem.... plenty of work but a very different controller

actually for stage work you can cheat and pretend to use the controller..
my poor bald head was once used as a percussion device by the Tokyo Shock
Boys...

and I saw a person who 'played' his Nord to a backing tape, lifting one end up
for the pitchbend, the crowd went wild (except for me)

paul perry melbourne australia