Motion Management By way of Belt | Hackaday

[Tolko] needed to encourage youngsters to have some bodily exercise, however famous that they solely needed to play video games. That led to BlobJump, a Raspberry Pi-based sport type of just like the well-known dinosaur runner sport. The distinction? Your physique — or extra exactly, a belt worn in your physique — is the controller. Your leaping and ducking make your on-screen avatar do the identical factor. Watch the video under to see the sport in motion.

Each belt incorporates an ESP32-C3, an MPU-6050, and sufficient rechargeable battery to make all of it work. Everything is wi-fi, in fact. We didn’t see any video of the particular youngsters, so we don’t understand how energetic they had been or whether or not they found out they might simply have a seat and transfer the belts of their palms. Even so, it appears to be like like a enjoyable sport.

We couldn’t assist however assume that, past encouraging exercise, this is perhaps an ideal venture to get a child enthusiastic about constructing {hardware} and software program. You may actually do worse in that division.

This isn’t a very new idea, however we favored the execution. If you’re actually lazy, you possibly can skip playing the game completely.