TAACo
Tri-axial Accelerometer controller
Project
Overview
The goal of this project is to design and manufacture a device that senses its displacement in space in order to produce an output signal that allows the user to control a video game based on computer arrow keys.
Krishna
The team
Nicolas
VanGalaxy
BK
Creation Process
For this device, we use an accelerometer connected to an Arduino Uno so that it detects the controller movement and prints out a certain value for a specific displacement. Then these output values will be translated by a Phyton code into a press or a release of a specific arrow key.
The Arduino and the accelerometer were mounted and secured with screws into the middle box of the controller wich was 3D printed
TAACo
After all the coding and assembling the components, it was time to test our controller, which we name it TAACo (Tri-Axial Accelerometer Controller). TAACo was tested by playing a marble video game on the internet and it worked perfectly. So we can proudly say that we achieved our goal.
Even though TAACo worked this is still an ongoing project and we are still working on how to make it more responsive and creating a more original presentation for the product.
TAACo2.0
This new version of TAACo posses a more original design for the controller case while still meeting ergonomic requirements which makes the new TAACo a substantial improvement that helps the user to easily interact with the controller just by using one hand, plus this new design allows the user to feel more comfortable when using TAACo with other arrow key based arcade games apart from the marble video game that was at first specifically designed for.