The Apple Remote

What does the Apple Remote do?

The Apple Remote is a remote control, made for use with Apple products with infrared capabilities released after October 2005. The remote is largely based on the interface of the original iPod shuffle and has only six buttons. The six buttons on the remote are for Menu, Play/Pause, Volume Up, Volume Down, Previous/Rewind, and Next/Fast-forward.

The remote was originally designed to interact with Front Row in the iMac. On 10th of January , 2006, the MacBook Pro with support for the Apple Remote was announced.

Can I use the apple remote for my project?
I think I might find a way to use the apple remote with flash or with processing to make an interactive game on the screen!

The AMS2HID User Interface

The tunable parameters available in AMS2HID for mouse-event synthesis, have a look at the Instruction page

The Apple Motion Sensor As A Human Interface Device

Apple added a feature called Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) to the PowerBook line in early 2005. The sensor attempts to prevent data loss by parking the heads of an active disk drive after detecting a "sudden motion", which could be due to strong vibrations or a fall.

Interactive Game System, Lightspace Play

Project 3 - slides

Proposal - Project 3

Human Control

I want to make some short of a enjoyable game. I want it to be very easy to play and have clear and obvious instructions. I thought of using either processing or flash for my game and make it work with a movement camera feed, a Wii remote or the Apple remote. I had an idea of 2 balls, or a ball and a flat line under it. The bottom ball would hold up the top one up and if you drop it, you are game over.

The inspiration for this certain game is from a game which I played when I was a kid. We needed to be 3 kids and 1 kid at a time, had to hold a soccer ball up without dropping it and the 3rd person was the judge with the timer. The winner was the person who could hold the ball up the longest.

News Breaker

NewsBreaker is an awesome game, when you score a txt pops up from the news and sometimes you get an extra bonus for scoring certain lines. I like to have my installation as some kind of a game for the audience, so everyone can play and so everyone is having fun.