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I bought the steam controller last week. So is it any good?
Yes.
It's the best controller I've ever handled. I am not a big fan of valve, I enjoy portal and half life 2, but only portal is something special. So the bias I had against the steam controller was negative. But I watched reviews to decide that yes, it looks awesome, so I bought one, thinking that if I didn't like it I could sell it on the swedish ebay.
The curve is the other direction than regular controllers, and that may seem like it would be weird, but it fills out your hand excellently. If you cup your hand, you'll feel that it goes like if you hold an elliptic ball. Most controllers don't emulate this natural grip, which the steam controller does. The touchpads can be used as both a mouse and a joystick, which makes them really nice and their sensitivity is just fine. The back paddles are quite resistant, but not too much so you don't push them by accident but they are easy enough to push. It has so many buttons, and that is excellent, and it's very easy to change the controller settings. Finally, the gyro is good for some games, can't say it's the best.
Now it's not perfect, there are a lot of negatives. The first thing you may notice is the glossy plastic. Glossy plastic has not, is not and will never be a good idea. Even though your palms and thumbs don't directly touch it while using as intended, it still attracts dust and you touch it sometimes. It's not goodlooking and it gets worse with time. The analogue stick and the buttons are quite far down, which makes it quite strenuous to use, even worse than using the analogue stick on the ps controllers. This is something that I usually fix by assigning the buttons to other buttons on the controller, since it has so many (Even the touchpads are buttons). The seam where the two halves are connected sticks out a bit, which cuts into your hand. THis is only noticable after long use, and barely then, but it's still not good. The "Haptic feedback" is a tactile and audative feedback which sounds like the audative feedback you get by having wireless devices close to sound devices, just quieter. Finally the size. It's really huge. This is both a pro and a con. The pro of it is that it fills out your hands a bit more, but the con is that it's fucking huge. here it is compared to the xbox 360 controller. It's also quite heavy.
All in all, it's a fantastic controller. Best I've ever handled. The gyro helps aim in fps, the touchpads make it more accurate to controll in most games. The only game it hasn't worked as it should in is LA noire thus far, and I have tried it in AoE2, Terraria, racing games, tropico 5, Payday 2, Papers please, MGRR and Dishonored. In LA noire the aiming was really sluggish.
I give this controller a solid 88/100.
The USB Extension Cable are 5 meter USB A to A extension cables, which can be used to extend the wired length of any USB Controller. Multiple extension cables can be connected together to increase the length to 25+ meters.
The use of these cables still requires a normal USB A to mini-B cable to connect to the camera.
A typical connection setup might be:
USB Controller > USB extension > USB extension > USB A to mini-B > Camera
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Arduino based MIDI controller using VEX ultrasonic rangefinder for note input. Knobs control key & scale.
As it turns out, this rangefinder is not great for this application, the beam is too narrow and makes it difficult to keep hand in beam. Subsequently replaced with rangefinder w/70 degree sonar cone.
This controller was to be used with the Mac rather than the console itself, hence the Apple Desktop Bus connection.
Despite appearances, I am actually a lot more excited about the Irish rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon than I am Rails' ability to inspire lewd humor.
Air Trafic Controllers in the tower of Hatzor AFB.
Photo by: Carmel Horowitz.
פקחי טיסה במגדל בבסיס חצור.
צילום: כרמל הורוביץ.
Boorplan controller kogelbaan. Deze frontplaat vormt de bediening van mijn Fischercontroller unit. Bevat keyboard matrix met 5x8 toetsen, LCD display encoders, pot meters, schakelaars en status leds.
Gisteren nog wat onderdelen gekocht zoals TB6612 motor drivers, meerdere servos, encoders en NeoPixel kleur leds.
Binnen kort meer, eerst vele gaatjes boren!
You can read about the TinyG Board Here:
www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:TinyG
The TinyG stack consists of:
Motion Control Node Hardware
Running an Atmel xmega chip.
Managing up to 4 local motors via on-board stepper controllers.
Node Controller Firmware
G code interpreter for coordinated motion control.
Low-level canonical motion control command and configuration set.
Networking to allow multiple nodes to be assembled into a large number of coordinated motion axes.
A Robust Packet Communications Protocol
Runs an RS-485 bus to drive a collection of nodes (2 wire, multi-master protocol).
Supports node-to-node addressable communications as well as unacknowledged and acknowledged broadcast transmissions.
Implements an easy-to-use ASCII protocol, as well as a more efficient binary form.
Easy to drive from Arduino (mega) serial monitor or by println() statements.
Flash was at 1/8 power ISO 100 shutter 1/250th and f/14.
The folded pieces of paper are there to reflect some light from the strobe back at the controller to get some separation from the background.
The controller is sitting on a piece of glass that's on top of a black piece of paper. The background is my lovely comforter draped over a LCD TV box.
Just goes to show you don't need studio lighting to get a studio quality shot.
Longer cables attached for remote mounting. Controller plug has been removed and re-mounted in front grill. Connection to controller plug is provided by 4-conductor towing light cable. Notice 4-connector plug. Plug is left unconnected except when off-roading. This is to prevent un-authorized operation of the winch.
Notice ---5 X 8 X 1/8 bracket is bolted to the back of the controller's metal base. This bracket attaches to two bolts below that protrude from the frame- sorry for the lack of photos.
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El interior del avión a control de Jorge García, Antonio Luna y Ángel Corona, estudiantes de Ingeniería Electrónica en el ITESO, con el que participarán en el Freescale Technology Forum Design Challenge Americas de Orlando, Florida.
In a friday (2007), at the same time Lula was in the air traveling to the US to visit President Bush, a huge crisis was developing back in Brazil. Air traffic controllers had started a strike protesting working conditions, paralyzing flights across the nation and bringing the “Aerial Blackout” crisis to a climax. The problems were started last year with the disintegration of Varig, Brazil's one-time flagship airline, and signs of persistent failure in air traffic control in the southern and central regions of the country were already being noticed by the media in March. It only got worse after the Sept. 29 collision which became Brazil’s worst air disaster, as the controllers started to perform slowdowns that brought delays in airports all over the country.
The mounting pressure over the issue last week led Lula to express his personal astonishment with the lack of a precise diagnostic about the problem by the ones in charge, and to demand solutions. What he could not imagine is that on that same week, he would have to handle the crisis personally by the phone from the presidential airplane while leaving the country. When dealing directly with the air controllers on strike, back came the old union leader with the ability to quickly bring the work stoppage to an end. But the deal quickly became an object of debate in the Brazilian blogosphere.