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• Game on!

  mihai.cuciuc • 10/21/2021 at 03:57 • 0 comments

  The gesture sensor and the driver I'm using for it take some time getting used to. Also with small changes to the Arduino driver for the sensor I could not only decode up/down/left/right swipes but also swipes at odd angles. I made a small game that works as a training mode for MakeKontakt, where red ships appear and you need to shoot them by swiping in their direction. Hits are confirmed with a green plus while misses are indicated by a red X.

• Updated PCBs

  mihai.cuciuc • 10/09/2021 at 19:07 • 0 comments

  Placement of the ESP8266 on the original PCB was not really thought out. I did remove the copper pour from under the antenna but WiFi signal strenght was not great. Another problem was having just one hole for mounting the PCB in the case, leaving some wiggle to the assembly. Yet another issue with the original boards was that I underestimated how big of a hole in the case was needed for the APDS-9960 gesture sensor to work reliably with the drivers I found. Increasing the opening exposed some of the components around the sensor, so I needed to clear that space out. I have a new PCB version that should address these issues, with a cutout for the WiFi antenna.

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