How to Create a 3D Joystick to Use in Second Life

Using an arduino hooked up to an accelerometer, a dude called CJ Davies created a device that's something of a 3D joystick or mouse, which he can now use to control his interactions in Second Life -- watch:

Go here to Mr. Davies' blog for the full-on geek exegesis on how to do this for yourself.

Comments

[GreenLantern Excelsior]

Or you could just buy a Space Navigator. SL is already set up to use that and it works well.

[shockwave yareach]

Space Navigator is not an Accelerometer. What this guy made can be put into a glove, and you walk or turn just by moving your wrist while sitting at your desk.

Optimally you'd make it so you use one of the new ones from ST which have gyros in the same accel package, so you can not only move but turn. Those are very popular with the UAV crowd and you can even find Arduino code if you aren't to the level of rolling your own boards and code yet.

But what's most interesting about this is that through the ENTIRE video, his avatar is a cloud... yeah, that's the SL that the lab thinks people from Steam are going to love.