Hall Effect sensors...

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow.
At 04:49 PM 9/18/97 -0700, David Halliday (Volt Computer) wrote:

>The sensor I am looking forward to playing with is the gyro sensor -
>they are making very tiny gyroscopes for use in position sensors.  I
>remember seeing one company selling a dual axis unit for around $120.
>This one was especially clever in that the gyro was a rapidly rotating
>thin plastic disk with a conductive coating.  There were capacitive
>sensors mounted close to the surface and the signal was generated by the
>deformation of the disk as the whole unit was moved.  It would give both
>position and rate of change.

Wowa. What a wicked device. What about using a pleamus (SP?) You know the
little devices they use for sensing positions in VR systems. I have no real
idea how these little boxes work but I happened to acquire an old
power-glove thing. I dunno, Nintendo or Matel or something. Can't remember
off hand. I stuck it in a draw inside and haven't looked at it yet. For all
I know it probably dosn't use a real pleamus. (SP?) But it's got these three
gizmos on the end of a stick which are obviously either sensors or emitters
of some kind to work in conjunction with the glove. I'm told these glove
things are 'to-die-for' in the home-brew VR community but I just happened to
pick it up in a lot from an auction for a few bucks. I was actually only
interested in the two old C64s in there. So I could rip the SID chips out of
'em. But I'd thought this glove thing might make a good controller at some
stage.

Hey perhaps I could drive my new digitally controlled mixer with it? More
stupid ideas to come. Just you wait. :)

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