Nokia N95 accelerometer in Blender
Marco Rapino has created a Python script to use the N95’s accelerometer data in the Blender game engine.
Hi, I’m a 25 years old italian developer working in a research centre in Helsinki (CKIR). I developed this prototype which shows you how the N95 accelerometer’s data can be used in Blender, thereby as an input device for the BGE. The prototype is simple I know, but the aim is to show how Blender possibilities, besides modeling, animating, composing (that is also for what I use Blender mainly for) etc. are practically endless since you can use the Python language within it. Which makes Blender, one of the most flexible software I have ever seen/worked with. You can find more informations (soon I will upload also the source code and .blend files) at my blog.
Thanks for your attention!
Marco
Really awesome!
Blender FTW!
bueno; ya podremos crear juegos del tipo del Wii…
el único problema es el teléfono XD
saludos…
Awesome!
Though now I feel my Nokia XpressMusic 5310 that I bought 2 months ago is useless…
@mercury:
true, you can also use the wiimote of course, but in general Python extends so much Blender that I have some difficulties in thinking about all the possibilities, which are endless since Python can be extended using c and c++ :)
Cool experiment, maybe in the future we have such a device to control the viewport. I think its best to control it with the head. Im pretty sure Sony and Microsoft are also experimenting which such devices for their game consoles and the PC will follow. The next step is to control the cursor with the eyes and make a click with a blink :)
Btw. isnt that Wonderboy in Monsterland music in the background? Its so familiar.
Wow! That’s cool! It reminds me of my course at school, call “Multimedia presentation” when we learn how to use Arduino. Pretty cool trick!
Wow, very good =) It’s like Wii =)
Genius!
That’s brilliant!
@Bastian:
if you roughly think that you could attach your N95 to a baseball cap then you have what you want :D no seriously, you can do something like that using the ps3 controller. It’s better than the wiimote because you can rotate on z, x and y axis (twist,roll and tilt) that are basically the movements that your head can do. Wiimote doesn’t have a gyroscope, even if they promised to integrate it with the wiimote plus and that limits the rotation on the z axis. And yes, the music is from wonderboy 3 :D
@others:
thanks! :)
great thinking, This could also be used as a 3d modeler if the phone records linear acceleration precise enough. try it out with blenders sculpt function. how much is such phone :)
@ysvry
wow, I haven’t thought about sculpting with a N95! That sounds cool, let me see what can be done :)
I found an article on similar matter – haptic 3d sculpting. But it is hosted at ACM and they are not going to provide
full free access to any resources grr… It is another form of eliticism?
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=300535 -articles on computer graphics as any other scientific articles should be free acessible, not hosted and prevented from any individual!!!
Great hack!
Would be fun to use this with Neverball or another Monkey Ball Clone.
Nice choice of background music ;)
Hey, that’s pretty cool! Agree with drop,^^ we should do Monkeyball!
Totally cool! Awesome music!
thanks guys, as soon as I document the code I’ll put it on my website, so stay tuned! I hope to manage to do it over the week-end, I promise :)
Nice work!
That is so cool! I need to get a new phone. (and learn Python)
This looks like it works very similar to a wii remote, would be cool if some found a way to get them implemented properly.
@aktathelegend:
lo que yo decÃa es que el uso que se le puede dar al teléfono es similar al control de la Wii: tal vez lo exprese mal :)
buen trabajo el tuyo :)
saludos…
@mercury
ok got it! :)
btw I managed to put sources on my blog ( http://www.aktasway.com/blog ), so now you can download the rar package and try it out with your own N95 and Blender :)
Happy blending!
Marco
You don’t need a proprietary OS, do you?
no ethana, it’s platform independent since I used python and Blender, so the server code runs on Linux/OSX/Win while the mobile just on N95 obviously because the accelerometer :)
Have you tried other accelerometer devices? will any of them work with your script?
@agile
As long as you can access them in Python, yes they will work :) if python doesn’t provide direct access to the accelerometer you need to write a connector in c/c++. do you have some device specific in mind? so maybe I can be more precise on how you could do :)
Hey, thanks for the interest! I had no specific device in mind, but as I thought before of 3d sculpting wit this sort of thing, first on my mind came: http://www.qrdc.com/Accelerometers, and then I thought of Wii controller and found this: http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-cheap-accelerometer-using-wii-nunchuck/ Is there any chnace taht this will work?
Thanks for the interest! I thought of this: http://www.qrdc.com/Accelerometers/Multi_Purpose_Accelerometers
and Wii controller: http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-cheap-accelerometer-using-wii-nunchuck/
Thanks for the interest , I thought of Wii controller: http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-cheap-accelerometer-using-wii-nunchuck/
is there any chance that it will work?
@agile
yeah indeed! there’s already a working example which uses glovePIE as a sort of “middleware” and pythonOSC. If you are interested check it out here:
http://www.selectparks.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=628
This was discussed long time ago also here on BN :)
Nice Tip and example video .Nice play with .
This is what open source is.Everyone contributes the program according to their talents and the level of knowledge.Creating a huge sinergy which is the very essence of an open-source thing.
Awesome!
Python and Blender FTW!