Childhood_Revived

Add motion control to your favorite childhood games

Motivation

Past couple of weeks under quarantine have been tiring. All physical activities have been greatly reduced (at least for me) so to motivate myself to get at least some form of exercise, I decided to add motion control to some of my childhood favorite games so I could control them by moving my body around instead of using a mouse and keyboard.

What Did I Do and What Did I Use?

I used Adafruit's CircuitPlayground board to get accelerometer reading in X, Y and Z axis. Then, based on the readings, the board acted as a HID device simulating mouse clicks and keyboard keys.

Final Thoughts?

This was a project I had so much fun working on. I got to learn how to simulate mouse and keyboard, I learnt how to understand and map accelerometer data and most importantly, I can now spend the rest of my quarantine playing games while staying healthy.

Built With

• circuitplayground
• mu
• python