Prometheus
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I just stumbled across this Kickstarter campaign, and thought that it was pretty neat, so I'm sharing it here.
It's a device called "MaKey MaKey", which acts as a standard USB Human Interface Device (and runs on top of an Arduino, and can thus be customised if you're already familiar with them, but absolutely no knowledge of them is required to use it as it comes), and to which you can hook up pretty much anything that conducts electricity in order to make all sorts of controllers and other interfaces.
One example given is a piano made from bananas (yes, real bananas), and others include a hand-drawn joystick on a piece of paper which responds when you touch the pencil markings that it consists of, and a keyboard made from alphabet spaghetti.
They're fairly close to their goal already, with around a month still left to run. I must say, I'm pretty impressed. And this could quite possibly make for some useful little Pandora add-ons (such as extra controls for media playback, and so on), too...
It's a device called "MaKey MaKey", which acts as a standard USB Human Interface Device (and runs on top of an Arduino, and can thus be customised if you're already familiar with them, but absolutely no knowledge of them is required to use it as it comes), and to which you can hook up pretty much anything that conducts electricity in order to make all sorts of controllers and other interfaces.
One example given is a piano made from bananas (yes, real bananas), and others include a hand-drawn joystick on a piece of paper which responds when you touch the pencil markings that it consists of, and a keyboard made from alphabet spaghetti.
They're fairly close to their goal already, with around a month still left to run. I must say, I'm pretty impressed. And this could quite possibly make for some useful little Pandora add-ons (such as extra controls for media playback, and so on), too...
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