This is so dorky. I love it.
Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
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#122The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4
Serious Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio vibes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJexftddVw EDIT: I just realized that it's the same guy behind this gem, that I randomly ran across a few months back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BQ2Q_pqI (I Made a Remote Lie Detector to Test Zuckerberg's Pulse)
This guy needs to be famous. ~150 likes on this video. It should be a million!
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#123Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.
Have you found or implemented a "reader"? Imagine teaching some ML your personal body movements, and then you could have it transcribe text into Semaphore-output video (or live rendering)... At least well enough that Semaphore-input could read it?
I started building a super simplified version of something like this to help me practice flag semaphore, but ended up learning the alphabet a lot faster than finishing that script :o)
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio vibes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJexftddVw EDIT: I just realized that it's the same guy behind this gem, that I randomly ran across a few months back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BQ2Q_pqI (I Made a Remote Lie Detector to Test Zuckerberg's Pulse)
This guy needs to be famous. ~150 likes on this video. It should be a million!
Thanks! Today has certainly been a good jumpstart :)
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#125The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4
This video is worth a watch just for the 1-second YMCA section. 2:43
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#127I am mostly impressed by the fact that he can keep a straight face while signaling. Impressive!
It honestly takes all my focus and concentration to remember the signals quickly. That's the look of 100% dedication to a silly task!
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hm which gear was particularly French? I was just channeling 80s aerobics workout in the intro, or the style of the songs played in the video.
In the gif on your github, all the "workout" gear colours are blue white and red, the colours of the French flag. If it was a happenstance, maybe you can just say it was on purpose, so...er.. I don't need to tell my therapist I'm reading too much into everything again?
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#129You could get a slight speedup by matching letter frequency with easiest/fastest semaphore, similar as to morse code and dvorak typing do it. You loose compatibility with the rest of the world though, but if you are only using it for personal typing it's not a problem.
You could also do a braille mapping instead of using semaphor so braille readers can get a workout.
A good way to play interactive fiction games: X, I, U, D, N, S, W, E, Z, OPEN, CLOSE, GIVE, ASK/TELL ABOUT https://www.microheaven.com/ifguide/step3.html
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#130He’s got to have a peace sign with tongue moving back and forth as a gesture as well