On Jan 14, 2005, at 02:10, Lance Boyle wrote:
I'm brainstorming on a project that involves communicating with a head tracker (I need only azimuth). I haven't decided on an actual head tracker, but am looking at a Polhemus. (Comments on head trackers are also welcomed--gaming devices or 3D mice?)
It looks like that I might need to communicate via RS-232 or USB (is there a MIDI tracker?). I want to keep this simple and clobber the problem with minimum fuss, so naturally I think of Python, AppleScript, etc. I'm pretty much a neophyte with such things (although I wrote a 3D plotting program for a Tektronix pen plotter a _long_ time ago).
Have a look at what http://www.makingthings.com has to offer. They built really nice IO modules (USB, serial, etc.) for mere mortals (read artists) that hook up to almost anything from Flash to Max/MSP, Java, C, etc. I haven't checked recently if there's a python binding already, but it shouldn't be hard for an experienced programmer to create.
We've had great success with our art students working with these modules.
Arthur
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