DIY Head Tracker For A Tenner
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Shockwave?! Let us not talk about that ancient 23rd century stuff.
Technically it is trying to show me a Youtube Video, but instead, since I don't have flash, it says D/L it instead of "You need Flash".
But if it did not try to make me download it, I could still see the video, as I use NOFLASH addon that automatically converts flash requests to Youtube to the HTML5 version as I never use flash since its poo
Totally off topic but all platforms these days support HTML5 video players. No need to use/push flash from a website any more. In case that your browser doesn't do HTML5, i seriously advise you to upgrade. Flash is history. Shockwave even more so.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/...-another-step-towards-death-thanks-to-google/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/...-another-step-towards-death-thanks-to-google/
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Badwolf, your OSX calibration tool is fantastic!
What is lacking now on the OSX side is a way to get the EDTracker talk to Opentrack. Not sure if Stanislaw will come up with a Joystick Input Tracker for it. Could the EDTrack Arduino Sketch be modified to output Hatire data that Opentrack on OSX understands?
What is lacking now on the OSX side is a way to get the EDTracker talk to Opentrack. Not sure if Stanislaw will come up with a Joystick Input Tracker for it. Could the EDTrack Arduino Sketch be modified to output Hatire data that Opentrack on OSX understands?
Just giving you guys a little update on my problem with my 9250 board, incase anyone ever gets this problem and decide to look it up. Will update the youtube video aswell later.
Had a chat with Brumster, and he looked on some of the readings in the control application, and we pretty much concluded that the device had to be defective in some way, cause the readings were way off.
This happens every now and then with all electronic devices. So this shouldnt really put anyone who is intrested in the DIY kit or the pro version off buying it.
Im getting it replaced with a new MPU, and hopefully everything will work as normal when i get that soldered in, will make an update post again when that happens.
Shout out to everyone for contributing with some great tips!
Had a chat with Brumster, and he looked on some of the readings in the control application, and we pretty much concluded that the device had to be defective in some way, cause the readings were way off.
This happens every now and then with all electronic devices. So this shouldnt really put anyone who is intrested in the DIY kit or the pro version off buying it.
Im getting it replaced with a new MPU, and hopefully everything will work as normal when i get that soldered in, will make an update post again when that happens.
Shout out to everyone for contributing with some great tips!
Thanks for the feedback!
I looked at Opentrack briefly (I say briefly it too me hours to get the dependencies together and get it compiling!) and it's very much a cut-down version of the windows version. I suspect expanding it to read joystick inputs, as does its windows counterpart, would be approach I'd suggest. It's then pretty generic going forwards.
Regards,
BW.
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Joystick input is already planned on the issue tracker for Linux and OSX. For OSX this requires some basic Objective C++ knowledge. It's gonna be done eventually but I have limited time and will for feature I won't really use.
Are there issues with the official release?
Are there issues with the official release?
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FWIW, the HID routines that I used are all pure C, if I remember rightly. I can let you have the relevant code once I've refactored for beta if it'd help?
This was several months ago so bear with my memory, but there wasn't a binary release and the mac instructions were sketchy if they existed at all. It certainly wasn't a case of ./configure ; make.
Annoying, I only deleted its folder a couple of weeks back, else I'd have a look and see where I struggled. Sorry.
BW.
A quick note for Pro users - there is a new firmware and GUI version available with lots of improvements and new features. Big thanks to all of the Beta testers (they know who they are ) for assisting checking with it.
Now you're all ready for Horizons
) for assisting checking with it.Now you're all ready for Horizons
Awesome, thanks!
* Joystick hotkey support >> nice, I have a few spare buttons left on my HOTAS
* Joystick hotkey support >> nice, I have a few spare buttons left on my HOTAS
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Now you've got the new GUI and firmware sorted for the Pro version any estimates on the non pro GUI update?
What would you like to see? There are a couple of bug fixes planned and then a 'tidy up' prior to open sourcing the original UI in the same way as the 6050/9150 firmware but I can back some of the Pro features into the UI if there's demand
Cheers,
Rob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXZxCFpGgk
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I would think the obvious features to bring to it would be :
- Joystick recenter bind
- Wizard calibration
I also think, from email discussions, that some sort of firmware selection wizard would be useful - so the user can select the hardware they have used to build their DIY (pictorially), including the Microcontroller and the MPU board, and it then lists the appropriate firmwares for the hardware.
- Joystick recenter bind
- Wizard calibration
I also think, from email discussions, that some sort of firmware selection wizard would be useful - so the user can select the hardware they have used to build their DIY (pictorially), including the Microcontroller and the MPU board, and it then lists the appropriate firmwares for the hardware.
