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Level42:
Must be because I used to work in the burglar alarm business (long ago),but did somebody think about including a motion detector in their cab ?
 
The contact can be connected as any regular button and it should trigger a sampled voice saying something challenging or inviting.It could even display special things on screen etc.
Don't know if any front-end would offer something like that, but would be easy to program I guess....(miniwah ?)

Think an ultrasonic detector will work best, since you want a rather small area to be covered, and these can be adjusted for range. Also ultrasonic detectors are most sensitive for motions straight to (or from) the detector. PIR (Passive Infra Reds) usualy have a more-or-less fixed pattern, but by clever placing this might also work. These are also much more common these days and very cheap. Work on 12V and cosume very little current.

In the programming, there should be some timers, because you don't want your cab to keep on saying things to you when you're playing it etc. And there must be a way to turn it off manualy of course.

Thought this would be a fun addition for cabs that are in more or less "public" places...

Minwah:
If you could get it to trigger a keypress or joystick input, then getting your pc to do something wouldn't be a problem.

Level42:
Yup, that's no problem at all. These things use relay contacts that simply can be connected straight to an I=pac, J=pac or simular, just like any other button.

Most of them will have the contacts follow the detection. So, each time it detects movement, it switches the contact. So that's why we would need timers in the software. I think something like, when it gets triggered the first time, it triggers the action you want (play a MP3 file, show a splashscreen (maybe a face or something) .
This should only be in the menu screen of course (or in the screensaver mode ?)

Then it will keep quite for let's say half a minute. If there's any action on the controls within a minute it should ignore any next switching until I guess the menu screen is back up. Even after the menu screen is back up it should keep quite for, let's say 3 minutes to allow a player to select another game without being triggered.

If the 30 seconds run out without a control being touched, you could either send another MP3 (maybe a bit more aggresive/challenging) or let it go back to it's normal state, so again triggering the same MP3 when the detecor is triggered.

Now, I'm not saying I am about to build this very soon in my cab (plenty of much more useful work to do first) but I do plan on building it in near the finishing of the project. My machine will probably end up at the bar of my music club (marching band) and thought this would be a nice way to attract people to the cab :)
O, it would be great (and probably neccesary) to make the times I mentione variables that can be set in the ini files.

Minwah:
To be honest I wouldn't want to get involved in adding direct support to Mamewah since it would be so specific to your system.

However, you could use the external application launching feature to launch an app that you could get or write to take care of all the time stuff and get it to do whatever you like.  You could probably even use a batch file if you're not a programmer.

Level42:
Haha, wan't couting on that :) I was just brainstorming again I guess ;) And see if anyone else would like it....we'll see when we get around of actualy doing it :)

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