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Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by perilunar »

sethammons wrote: post #7

I was lamenting the use of "semaphore" but wikipedia supports them: > Semaphore (lit. 'apparatus for signalling'; from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma) 'mark, sign, token', and Greek -φόρος (-phóros) 'bearer, carrier')[1] is the use of an apparatus to create a visual signal transmitted over distance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore I was only familiar with: > [A semaphore] is a variable or abstract data type used…

Knowing about programming semaphores but not visual semaphores seems quite bizarre to me. A bit like thinking flag or register or stack were only computer terms.

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by fheisler »

jonplackett wrote: post #43
kieto wrote: post #2

The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4

I wonder how long it took to learn the actions. A dance revolution style tutorial would be fun

It only took me a couple days to learn all the signals and work out the modifiers, but about ten days of ~an hour a day after that of speeding things up. Maybe I'll make my own instructional 80s workout video for it...

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by hypernovawebant »

fheisler wrote: post #47

Author 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.

I'm actually already working on exactly that -- after trying it out on a couple of mini-games such as https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop, https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop and https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop.

Please let me know if you want to join forces! You can find my contact information at: https://github.com/mristin.

I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer games as long as they move. The first stage for me is to find a workable approach to DOS games. In particular, I thought about adapting ski-leu to race games such as Outrun & ilks.

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by fheisler »

orangepanda wrote: post #32
iamwil wrote: post #4

Oh, this is like the April Fool's day joke, Google Motion, back in 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20151025130300/http://www.google... Where you type email with your full body.

My first thought was Dance Dance Authentication https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/30/stack-overflow-unveils...

Ironically this project also first got covered by Hackaday on April 1, so quite a few people thought it was only another prank.

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by senectus1 »

fheisler wrote: post #47

Author 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.

that youtube video was hilarious and very clever... you're about to become a overnight sensation mate :-D

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Post by HopenHeyHi »

fheisler wrote: post #47

Author 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.

I thought it was awesome. It occurred to me when you mentioned tinkering with magic values that it won't be very tweekable for other users like that.

Instead of MediaPipe try training a simple NN with a quickstart asking new players to assume the positions for fine tuning? :P

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by fheisler »

hypernovawebant wrote: post #53
fheisler wrote: post #47

Author 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.

I'm actually already working on exactly that -- after trying it out on a couple of mini-games such as https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop , https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop and https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop . Please let me know if you want to join forces! You can find my contact information at: https://github.com/mristin . I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer ga…

Excellent, I'll reach out! Your balloon game looks a bit more like my face keyboard interface: https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys#readme

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Post by samanator »

HopenHeyHi wrote: post #50
kieto wrote: post #2

The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4

He mentions Semaphore signaling was invented by Claude Chappe and then proceeds to make fun of him for being French which I don't find acceptable.

I rewatched that part of the video and don't see where he made fun of him. Are you referring to when he mentions that Claude Chappe was "big-brained" and zooms in on his head? If so, that sounds like a compliment to me.
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