DIY Head Tracker For A Tenner

Dizzy B High

Dizzy B High
simu said:
Interesting, I hadn't tried that because I wasn't having an issue with the leonardo connecting but found that with USBDeview it was recognized as EDTracker both with the calibration sketch and the 9250 sketch. I should have expanded earlier when I said the calib sketch was buggy, I have clicked the "Calculate Bias" button 15 times at the time of this screenshot. I am posting a screenshot of the calibration sketch (with usbdeview in the back), the flash message from flashing 9250, and than a screenshot of usbdeview after the 9250 flash which shows it being identified as EDTracker, but no axis data received either on the EDTracker GUI or OpenTrack.

http://imgur.com/erG20a6
http://imgur.com/1SIb3YQ
http://imgur.com/2QQkBHu
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If its showing up in USBDeview as EDTracker then the drivers are being picked up and loaded ok, I bought mine ready made (to avoid problems like your having).
Sorry i cant be of anymore help, i really dont know enough about electronics to point you in another direction.

Good luck with it hope you get it working, it really makes the game something different.
 

VerticalBlank

VerticalBlank
Pro tip: head tracking and varifocals don't mix [wacky]

Set up my EDTracker Pro and had completely forgotten that I mostly wear varifocals. Instant eye strain! Back to a pair with just my distance prescription and all fine.
 

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
Hi Brumster,

Yes, I'm still stuck on 6dof.

Is it possible to place beacons on the monitor (powered by USB perhaps) and a sensor in the EDTracker that can triangulate position in space? The cops do it with cell towers. Why can't we? :-D
 

badwolf77

B
EDTracker DIY Mac Software

Hi guys. Better late than never?

After a full year I've completely rewritten the Mac configuration software and published the results. At least OSX 10.8 needed, I think. Hope it helps someone!

https://github.com/dh219/EDTracker-Mac/releases

Regards,

BW.


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badwolf77

B
wstephenson said:
Good story. Wishing the EDTracker team the best of luck with the new product.
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<AOL>

Nice to read a bit about the headaches of setting up a commercial supply chain rather than the more DIY mindset of 'slap this module on that and bang', in which terms I'm sure we're all to an extent guilty of thinking.

-BW
 

Ytheleus

Y
I'm sure it will go very well and wish you good fortune with the wireless gubbins. At present I have no plans to upgrade my (what turned out to be) vintage retro classic cabled mag board attached to a USB wire, since my headphones are still wired anyhow and what's one more strand of spaghetti? It's robust and still very functional even though I did the soldering.

Since a certain competitor still asks ludicrous money there's room for this product, for now. I suggest protecting the commercial software as far as feasible, at least the source code, make it a bit harder for freeriders. No doubt you are. You know there will be endless calls for position sensing I suppose, and BT4LE might extend the range of applications. Now that I think about it...

I was lecturing granny about sucking eggs the other day...

One day I would be interested in a further DIY project with the headroom of a far better processor, if you boys can tear yourselves away from your yachts. My poor olde DIY tracker packs a lot into its tiny memory and you have to effectively chop off one of its legs to get room to do anything more. I won't hold my breath, just a cheeky idea. :D

Well done, deserved progress, make many sales quickly.
Thanks for bringing useful head-tracking within range of my wallet moths.
 

Kreed

K
I got one of these boards and was able to flash it with the EDTracker 6050 sketch and it sort of works but the accelerometer is constantly active. perhaps there's a way to disable it. I'll keep trying.
 

badwolf77

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to 'throw' the EDTracker output over the network using usbip but am running into trouble.

The virtual serial port shows up but the HID components don't seem to be recognised. The joystick never appears in the controller list. I've tried in the past passing the EDTracker through to a VMWare client as well and that seems to suffer the same problem.

I assume this is related to the problem seen on Windows 10 where a reconnection is sometimes necessary and the trickery that goes on in the firmware to use the same USB connection for the HID device and the serial controller?

Has anyone any thoughts on how I might be able to persuade this to work? Would appreciate it.

Thanks,

-BW.
 

badwolf77

B
zz9pa said:
If it helps, i did something similar with an esp8266 (a bit like a wifi enabled arduino).
See
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?p=41089
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Hi zz9pa, that's not quite what I was after (I really was after the ability to see the HID remotely or in a VM), but you've given me another couple of lines of enquiry to pursue.

1) I could think about squirting UDP to opentrack from the serial data that does forward.

2) I could think about doing something with vJoy along the lines above. Perhaps even remotely.

Cheers,

BW.
 

waterlubber

waterlubber
I'm having a weird issue with mine. I don't have a button on it and instead use the F3 one on the EDTracker software to center. I'm using the one with the magnetometer (9250) assembled on a breadboard using some headers.

When I yaw/turn my head quickly to the left or right, I have this really, really annoying "snap back".
Here's a youtube video to give you the idea (sometimes, it's a lot more profound and REALLY annoying):
[video=youtube_share;zMb1MlP81tg]https://youtu.be/zMb1MlP81tg[/video]
 

{SAS}Stalker

{SAS}Stalker
waterlubber said:
I'm having a weird issue with mine. I don't have a button on it and instead use the F3 one on the EDTracker software to center. I'm using the one with the magnetometer (9250) assembled on a breadboard using some headers.

When I yaw/turn my head quickly to the left or right, I have this really, really annoying "snap back".
Here's a youtube video to give you the idea (sometimes, it's a lot more profound and REALLY annoying):
https://youtu.be/zMb1MlP81tg
Click to expand...

Mine has just started to do the exact same thing, its almost like its auto centering itself when you stop turning. I have no idea what has changed with it but its made using it almost impossible. I have re-flashed it and reset it to factory defaults with no joy, the only thing that has helped is to increase the yaw and pitch mulitis up to 14 and set the smoothing to 98% but even then theres still a degree of snap back to it.

A reddit thread here suggests using the firmware version EDTracker2_9150 4.0.3 but this does'nt seem to exist.
 

Kaltern

Kaltern
So I'm having a problem with my EDTracker Pro - I'll mail support too, but I wondered if anyone has had a similar issue with theirs.

Basically, it appears my tracker has gained inertia! I look in a direction, and the tracker decides to keep going in that direction after I stop moving - presumably to see if anything more interesting is going on. Needless to say, this isn't very helpful!

Here's a vid to show the problem.

[video=youtube_share;N-y4Cyz596s]https://youtu.be/N-y4Cyz596s[/video]
 
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