WebGrip - a web interaction experiment

My first experiment with building something that interacts with a web browser. It's trying to be a bit like the Wii or Kinect, only that it interacts with the web, which by definition is an open medium. This way anyone could generate content for it and not be limited by licences from the producer. No red lights like here for instance: http://www.ehow.com/how_6109465_make-video-game-ps3.html

This is my first big project and video.

Things I used to make it:
Hardware:
Arduino Mini Pro http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardProMini
Boarduino http://www.ladyada.net/make/boarduino/
Gyros from Poloulu http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1266
Accelerometers from Sparkfun http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9269

Software libraries used:
TinkerProxy for the usb to network socket communication http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/TinkerProxy

Scott Schiller's arduino.js for the network socket - flash - javascript stack https://github.com/scottschiller/arduino.js/tree/

jQuery for the animations: http://jquery.com/
jQuery rotate plug-in: http://code.google.com/p/jqueryrotate/

Photos are of sculptures made by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C5%9Fi

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arduino
• accelerometer
• gyroscope
• web interaction
• diy
• electronics

[ciprianHetea]

thanks, glad you like it!

[Otringal]

tare rau :X (ur neighbour de la 734 :P)

[Herysh]

really cool man! Congrats!