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Originally Posted by the.terrabyte.pirate
You'll never get the same effect using the keyboard to move the periscope. There's no gradients of spin. It's either still, or spinning at high speed.
What you want is the peri to be hooked up to a second cordless mouse running horizontally on the inside of circular "ring". It could be part of the periscope assembly. That way the rate of spin on the screen is represented by the rate of spin of the periscope and mouse.  |
That's actually a good idea. I was thinking some sort of geared servo rigged upto a voltage meter, allowing the USB software to determine angle of movement.
But if you put that mouse over a graduated (think barcode) surface, then there a lot of possible applications for amateur motion controls.
Also, I don't think there's anything specific (aside from a cheap DYI ROV), but at
www.revision3.com, look for the cancelled show Systm under archived shows. Lots of cool tech DYI projects you may find an application for. Things like when Gmail gets a new mail, a physical flag gets raised on your machine. Could do something similar for alerts from crew members.