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nazerine:

http://www.kellbot.com/2009/05/life-size-katamari-lives/

Sweet. Since discussed in http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=91948.0 thread I had thought about and wanted a Katamari cab..

Wife 100% supports building Katamari cabinet after seeing the video.   :w00t

This seems like a very good tinkering project to find something that will work well and give a good katamari feeling  :laugh:

Blanka:

I saw it too, and a Katamari-cab to follow the Retro Space is in the pen. I liked the idea about the giant ball, but it has a problem for the gameplay.
- The tank-stik operation only uses the analog part of the controller for the turning, not for the rolling speed. You should discard this input with a ball.
- A trackball does not work as it does not react to turning the ball at the same point. You need two mouse-balls following the same huge ball, and like the girl did, use a microcontroller to translate the input two tank-stick commands on a normal PS2 port.
- You need seperate buttons for fast rolling and 180 degree spinning. Maybe you can have the microcontroller translate fast normal rolling into the double tank-stik fast-roll command. The 180 degree turn is hard to add to the control. The fun about Katamari is that the controls are so simple. A seperate button for the spin would ruin the concept.
- If you make a huge trackball and have that one operate 2 mice, i doubt its ruggedness. Guess the tank-configuration is the most logic one for a cab. It even mimic the Cousin pushing the Katamari. Your two hands do the same as the cousin's.

nazerine:

With using the arduino there are many programming possibilities. I was thinking about how the ps2 library could be used to detect 'trackball gestures'

Bender:

couldn't you make a trackball for a PC out of almost any round object using just a optical mouse?

if so, this opens a bunch of alternate designs possibilities for trackballs

anyone know where to get the base rollers she used in that video?

jasonbar:


--- Quote from: Bender on May 27, 2009, 01:08:26 pm ---anyone know where to get the base rollers she used in that video?

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Look up "ball transfer" at mcmaster.com

-Jason

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