[HN Gopher] Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
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Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Author : kieto
Score : 1070 points
Date : 2023-04-12 08:24 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| dhritzkiv wrote:
| I'd love to see this used to play QWOP
| fheisler wrote:
| I tried that out! It was honestly hard to tell a difference,
| I'm already so bad at it...
| asimpletune wrote:
| The jump for space and the jazz hands for exclamation mark are
| pure gold
| muyuu wrote:
| next time I'm spastic I'll tell my wife I'm actually working in
| my next project
| schneems wrote:
| "You can't code and workout at the same time"
|
| Oh yeah, watch me
| jsrcout wrote:
| Magnificently pointless, in the finest traditions of the old-time
| hackers. Sir, I salute you.
| jimmySixDOF wrote:
| This is straight up awesome and must watch video just for the
| lolz.
|
| But there is a thread to pull on here in terms of tangible user
| interfaces and the replacement of keyboards as a traditional
| input system. Meta's CTRL-Labs (ex Myo Armband) are working on
| EMG where just signaling to your muscles can trigger keyboard
| strokes and the bandwidth is faster than fingers or so they say.
| There are several other R&D efforts in that direction from BCIs
| to free space gesture detection through different flavors of
| computer vision and sensor fusion. Mr Everything Is Hacked is
| doing it here just for the sheer joy of the journey but there are
| serious reasons to play around with qwerty alternatives.
| mncharity wrote:
| > replacement of keyboards
|
| Or _augmentation_ of keyboards: wand /stylus; 3D finger
| tracking; multitouch tablet. Extending rather than dumpstering
| existing refined comfortable power. My laptop used to have
| three extra fold-out cameras for TFA-like mediapipe games.
| Though tech resets are an opportunity to escape trap deadends,
| to "do better this time" - that thinkpad keyboard was a
| crippled and crippling 2-key rollover. And sensor fusion with
| diverse latencies (keypress vs pose-tracked video) is
| nontrivial - complex event processing with backtrackable app
| state. LLMs with UI/HID "languages" will be such fun!
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| How's that research going? It would be interesting to be able
| to "type" on any surface, just by pretending there's a keyboard
| in front of me.
| mncharity wrote:
| > "type" on any surface
|
| There's Tap Strap, and not-yet-released TapXR, though they
| are more chording keyboards than "keyboard in front of me".
| landswipe wrote:
| This guy Chucks Norris.
| junon wrote:
| This is so dorky. I love it.
| schabby wrote:
| Reminds me of Eurythmics from back in the day when I attended a
| Rudolf Steiner school.
| dotancohen wrote:
| Eurythmics and not the Village People?
| severak_cz wrote:
| Eurythmy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurythmy
| mclightning wrote:
| Seeing OpenCV in this post-ML world, gave me some nostalgia
| /teary eyed emoji
| ivolimmen wrote:
| I am mostly impressed by the fact that he can keep a straight
| face while signaling. Impressive!
| fheisler wrote:
| It honestly takes all my focus and concentration to remember
| the signals quickly. That's the look of 100% dedication to a
| silly task!
| whiplash451 wrote:
| I am curious to know how far you take this in terms of it
| becoming second nature. As in, maybe after days and weeks of
| practice, you can type stuff effortlessly ?
|
| How far away from effortless mastery are you?
| fheisler wrote:
| It's always going to be plenty of physical effort! In terms
| of the mental overhead: there are some letters/motions like
| R, F, D that just feel second-nature already from lots of
| practice and more 'obvious' positions, but I still have to
| think about most of them. A few letters still trip me up,
| like remembering M versus S (mirror images). I'd love to
| find a seasoned signalman to get their take.
| patrickwalton wrote:
| Pair this with Superhuman and you'll have Gmail Motion (April
| Fools product) in the flesh! https://youtu.be/9KEcfP_CWVo
| dekhn wrote:
| Cool idea. I did something similar- a whiteboard with various
| magnetic icons that were original SVGs. I trained an object
| detector to recognize the different icons and extract that into a
| data structure depending on the icon orientation and relative
| positioning. I wanted to patent that as a brand new way of
| programming- visual programming with real objects. Never went
| anywhere with it.
| iamwil wrote:
| Oh, this is like the April Fool's day joke, Google Motion, back
| in 2011.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20151025130300/http://www.google...
|
| Where you type email with your full body.
| orangepanda wrote:
| My first thought was Dance Dance Authentication
|
| https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/30/stack-overflow-unveils...
| fheisler wrote:
| Ironically this project also first got covered by Hackaday on
| April 1, so quite a few people thought it was only another
| prank.
| cthemsley wrote:
| Would love to see someone take this and use it to beat dark
| souls.
| darylteo wrote:
| Mmmm it wouldn't be too different from using a DDR pad I
| suppose?
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Here's someone playing Dark Souls with poses through a Kinect:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xak0l2-Zg9w
| shaunxcode wrote:
| do you need 3 people to do a choreographed emacs key chord? I
| guess it could finally make peer programming necessary.
| khnorgaard wrote:
| This is superbly geeky and I love it! Unless you are missing an
| arm or a leg. How would one go about adding accessibility to a
| project like this?
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Fun Fact! the "peace sign" was originally created a superposition
| of "N" and "D" semaphores as it was a logo for Nuclear
| Disarmament.
|
| [edit] I originally put U+262E in my comment, but apparently HN
| strips some unicode characters?
| m3kw9 wrote:
| He's got to have a peace sign with tongue moving back and forth
| as a gesture as well
| nathias wrote:
| amazing, soon we will all be just prompt wizards casting our
| spells using arcane gestures
| eschneider wrote:
| We call those bash scripts where I come from. =:8)
| freethejazz wrote:
| Step aside, Dvorak
| breischl wrote:
| command: lift left leg to ~horizontal thigh control: lift
| right leg to ~horizontal thigh
|
| So command+control => midair splits?
| eCa wrote:
| That's a good use case for Sticky keys[1] for able-bodied
| people that wish to remain so.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys
| [deleted]
| fortylove wrote:
| The peak mechanical keyboard will be when we teach robots to
| accept voice dictation and they then write what we say using
| these motions.
| callamdelaney wrote:
| My vim experience is going to be more ergonomic than ever, plus
| after I deliver this project I'm gonna be ripped.
| pjio wrote:
| Not what I expected, but not disappointed either.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| That's pretty fun. Reminds me of the creativity with Xbox Kinect
| back in the day.
| s1mplicissimus wrote:
| The idea of "dancing your name" seems to have caught on in an
| unexpected way.
|
| Love the project idea, the outfit worn for the demo video AND the
| fact that the "!" sign seems to be a "shaking fingers" power pose
| :D
| redkoala wrote:
| A sign-language based keyboard controller would be immediately
| useful.
| Version467 wrote:
| I love everything about this. The idea, the implementation, the
| demo video. My day is better for having seen it.
| fheisler wrote:
| Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of
| HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to
| answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks.
| Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game
| controller as well.
| mrandish wrote:
| The video on your site, from the clothing to your expression,
| is absolute perfection!
| wpietri wrote:
| Can I just say how much I liked the small details here? Like
| your choice of matching sweatbands, your jazz hands on the last
| symbol, your choice of pose for backspace, and the commit
| message, "Updated readme for pedantry". In your honor, I am
| performing the chef's-kiss gesture. (Which I hope you will
| include as you add emoji to your input device.)
| fheisler wrote:
| Thank you! Although TBF I only merged the pedantic README
| update :D
| izietto wrote:
| As a remote software developer, if this became a product that
| could be used daily I'd probably buy it. It would be the key
| link between programming and body exercise.
| nicorn789 wrote:
| My back agrees with you
| ghodith wrote:
| Yoga pose based programming?
| izietto wrote:
| YDD, Yoga Driven Development
| samstave wrote:
| >DDDD
|
| >>Downward Dog Driven Development
| teddyh wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation#Origins
| dmead wrote:
| how much did you love the nintendo powerglove back in the day?
| otikik wrote:
| Have you considered making a full body musical instrument?
| senectus1 wrote:
| that youtube video was hilarious and very clever... you're
| about to become a overnight sensation mate :-D
| cushychicken wrote:
| Big Jack Stratton energy in your demo GIF.
|
| Here's hoping this ends up in a Vulf music video.
| SirLJ wrote:
| This is absolutely great! Thank you Sir!
| HopenHeyHi wrote:
| I thought it was awesome. It occurred to me when you mentioned
| tinkering with magic values that it won't be very tweekable for
| other users like that.
|
| Instead of MediaPipe try training a simple NN with a quickstart
| asking new players to assume the positions for fine tuning? :P
| fheisler wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah, I definitely chose the easy way over the
| 'right' way for this version with just setting simple
| thresholds.
|
| I'm not sure how well it will work yet, but for a game
| controller I might try to have users record their own custom
| motions - as in, "show me a few of your chosen [high punch]
| motions to match against in-game."
| illiarian wrote:
| Your video is a work of art.
|
| You could probably combine semaphore keyboard with some sort of
| stenography software for faster input (e.g. Plover
| https://youtu.be/KZGuBV1xe64)
| fheisler wrote:
| I replied to a similar comment above, definitely worth an
| experiment!
| munchler wrote:
| Enjoyed your video, but quick FYI: Your SSN is visible on the
| shot of your tax form. Might not want that detail to go viral.
| J_tt wrote:
| I don't think that is the authors SSN, since the first number
| closely matches a song title and the second is "69 420 007",
| which is definitely a joke.
| elijahbenizzy wrote:
| Thank you for this! Watching this brought me quite a bit of
| joy.
| pstorm wrote:
| Have you considered adding an autocomplete? Maybe add in three
| most likely completions to your word and have three separate
| signals to select each respectively? Maybe that's cheating, but
| that could up your words per minute drastically!
| spit2wind wrote:
| I hope the video was dramatized and that you didn't actually
| hurt yourself!
|
| Rather than type every letter, a more efficient system is to
| represent sounds with keys. This is how stenography works. Each
| stoke of the keys is mapped to a series of characters; a
| letter, a grouping (such as 'sh' or 'ing'), or a complete
| phrase. Using such a system would allow one motion, for example
| for 'b', to map to a whole word, such as 'be'. Something as
| simple as that would reduce your risk of injury by something
| like 50%.
|
| A major difference between stenography and typing is that steno
| is chorded: the signal is sent when the keys are released, not
| when they are depressed. I'm not sure how that would work with
| the full body.
|
| Check out the OpenStenoProject for more about steno. Their
| community would probably enjoy discussing a full body steno
| theory (if they haven't already) .
|
| Take care and thanks for all the effort that went into
| producing the video! It was a lot of fun :)
| BrandoElFollito wrote:
| Completely unrelated, but your comment about stenography
| reminded me how our French president announced the COVID
| lockdown. It was a speech full of key information (some I
| could not hear because when he announced that the schools
| would close children erupted in yells) but that was not the
| best part.
|
| The best part was that the speech was also signed for the
| deaf (that part was normal) and subtitled by a ..., well, ...
| stenography trainee.
|
| He or she had all wrong, could not keep the speed, was mixing
| words and skipping whole parts. At some point they seem to
| have said to themselves "oh fuck it" and were typing more or
| less random words.
|
| The whole country was with them, hoping that they will go on
| typing until the end (which they did). That was a memorable
| event and people actually learned about stenography and the
| fact that they apparently use a special keyboard in the form
| of a butterfly.
| varjag wrote:
| Can't code with that.
| fheisler wrote:
| Interesting, I wonder if you could make a BodyChord or
| FaceChord setup using steno... Can you actually _write code_
| using a steno keyboard - as in, full access to all the usual
| symbols and modifiers - or would it just be for letters and
| basic punctuation?
| michaelmior wrote:
| There are plenty of chorded keyboards that are programmable
| enough to allow use of whatever symbols you want or need
| when programming.
|
| The Charachorder One is one example
|
| https://www.charachorder.com/products/charachorder-one
| zeta0134 wrote:
| Yes! Here is a really great talk on the state of doing so,
| with a fantastic realtime demo near the end. Mirabai live-
| codes using her Plover setup and narrates her thought
| process as she types out each command.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g
| 1-more wrote:
| I saw her at a keyboard meetup in NYC. She blew my mind
| with her vim setup: chords representing commands meant
| that the keystrokes didn't exactly matter: you could have
| the chord represent an arbitrarily annoying set of
| keystrokes and have a correspondingly complicated vimrc
| to handle them. Very cool!!
| fheisler wrote:
| Amazing! The spoken demo reminds me of Victor Borge's
| Phonetic Punctuation. This would be such a great way to
| spend so much time getting slightly more efficient...
| markstos wrote:
| I'll keep this mind the next time I'm stuck on a burning
| rooftop and trying to communicate with the rescue chopper. I
| only hope the pilot understands Semaphore!
| hypernovawebant wrote:
| I'm actually already working on exactly that -- after trying it
| out on a couple of mini-games such as
| https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop,
| https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop and
| https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop.
|
| Please let me know if you want to join forces! You can find my
| contact information at: https://github.com/mristin.
|
| I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer games as
| long as they move. The first stage for me is to find a workable
| approach to DOS games. In particular, I thought about adapting
| ski-leu to race games such as Outrun & ilks.
| fheisler wrote:
| Excellent, I'll reach out! Your balloon game looks a bit more
| like my face keyboard interface:
| https://github.com/everythingishacked/CheekyKeys#readme
| pl90087 wrote:
| For some idea sourcing, you guys could consider mapping to
| musical notes as well. Then each melody maps to a
| particular dance.
| fheisler wrote:
| Hmm like a camera-based full-body theremin?
| somethoughts wrote:
| >> I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer games
| as long as they move.
|
| These could also be of interest for inspiration as well -
| basic idea this Youtuber is doing is to use console gamer
| joystick re-mapper hardware to convert joycon acceleration
| readings to button presses/button combos.
|
| Can you Lose weight by playing Breath of the Wild? - Ringfit
| Controller Mod Explained Version
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYn3pWXMPF8
|
| - Today we talk about the Ringfit Adventure controller mod
| for Zelda: Breath of the Wild. With this mod you can Exercise
| and play BotW at the same time.
|
| I made a Ring Fit Adventure Mod for Mario Kart - Controller
| Bending
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNZSfunw85A
|
| - Today on Controller Bending we mod the Ring fit controller
| to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with. With this Ring-con mod you
| have to run to drive. Literally. Squeezing the ring-con
| activates items!
|
| I'd imagine a lot of similar mods could be done via computer
| vision instead of using joycon accel readings.
|
| I think the key would be to show up to a gaming console as a
| PS4/XBox controller instead of just a keyboard. I think there
| are Python libraries to do this [1] or just stick to Steam
| games that just need WASD controls. This allows you to tap
| into already huge library of high quality games and just
| focus on the OpenCV movement-> joystick button remapping
| part.
|
| [1] Something like this - although it might be Windows only
| https://pypi.org/project/vgamepad/
| major505 wrote:
| I wish this existed 20 years ago when I done my college
| capstone project. It would be great present this to the
| examination board
| VikingCoder wrote:
| Have you found or implemented a "reader"?
|
| Imagine teaching some ML your personal body movements, and then
| you could have it transcribe text into Semaphore-output video
| (or live rendering)... At least well enough that Semaphore-
| input could read it?
| fheisler wrote:
| I started building a super simplified version of something
| like this to help me practice flag semaphore, but ended up
| learning the alphabet a lot faster than finishing that script
| :o)
| gorjusborg wrote:
| Your project (especially the video) made my life a little
| brighter. Thank you for putting it out there, and having a
| sense of humor :)
| hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
| I loved this! Should be customizable so that twerking also
| allows you to double letters :)
| jxf wrote:
| Completely impractical and completely wonderful fun. Thank you
| for your work, OP! I love seeing projects full of joy, mischief,
| and wonder for the power of computing.
| sethammons wrote:
| I was lamenting the use of "semaphore" but wikipedia supports
| them:
|
| > Semaphore (lit. 'apparatus for signalling'; from Ancient Greek
| sema (sema) 'mark, sign, token', and Greek -phoros (-phoros)
| 'bearer, carrier')[1] is the use of an apparatus to create a
| visual signal transmitted over distance.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore
|
| I was only familiar with:
|
| > [A semaphore] is a variable or abstract data type used to
| control access to a common resource by multiple threads and avoid
| critical section problems in a concurrent system.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)
| jxramos wrote:
| same here with my initial first take on the name. I was doing a
| internet search for something recently and realized this spirit
| of taking an existing word and deliberately overloading it in a
| different context rather than coining a new term with a
| distinct phonemes is slowly mucking up our language to
| disambiguate by keywords alone. It's hard work to invent new
| words and I get it can slow the adoption or recognition of
| something if the name hasn't been settled yet and it's tempting
| to just skip over that whole process by leapfrogging out of the
| mental wrestling by coopting an existing word and append a new
| definition to it.
|
| Earlier in life I used to lament the lack of uniqueness to
| words and the existence of synonyms but later began appreciate
| the overlap because having the ability to talk about something
| with a variety of phonemes seemed to help create some
| conceptual distance in a conversation that was otherwise
| obscured by close sounding words.
|
| But this almost lazy reuse of existing words, I'm still not
| sure how I feel about it now that I'm aware of its costs.
| acomjean wrote:
| Semaphore flags were for communication between ships.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore
|
| Or if your Monty python restaging whuthering heights
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| Still are, as far as I'm aware.
|
| Smoke signals are literally the oldest known semaphore, and
| fire is recorded to have been used to telegraph signals over
| 700km per hour in the Byzantine Empire.
| DougBTX wrote:
| In particular, Flag Semaphore:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore
| beardyw wrote:
| I learnt it as a cub scout. Or at least I think I was supposed
| to. Don't remember getting a badge.
| bluGill wrote:
| It is still in the books as one of the optional activities
| you can do. If you do it depends on the leaders of the pack.
| I've seen it in my kids books, but we never did that page.
| perilunar wrote:
| Knowing about programming semaphores but not visual semaphores
| seems quite bizarre to me. A bit like thinking flag or register
| or stack were only computer terms.
| getcrunk wrote:
| Yea, like many computing terms are normal words now being
| used as jargon
| perilunar wrote:
| I'm struggling to think of _any_ computer terms that aren
| 't repurposed 'normal' words, initialisms, acronyms, or
| portmanteaus. Even the words 'computer', 'program' and
| 'code' are repurposed.
| rdlw wrote:
| Foo?
| carapace wrote:
| "thunk"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
|
| Ah but it says, "The term originated as a whimsical
| irregular form of the verb think." but without citation.
| Hmm, I dimly recall some hacker wag saying something
| like, "it's the sound of a continuation hitting the
| stack"...
|
| Maybe "plonk" counts?
| https://en.everybodywiki.com/Plonk_(Usenet)
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I don't know if they're on HN yet, but there's a generation
| for which "writing to disk" has nothing to do with disks of
| anything.
| zamnos wrote:
| Depends on when you want to define "nothing to do with
| disk" as. M.2 was introduced in 2013 which would make them
| 9 years old by now, but if we look at Samsung's 2006 PATA
| SSD (with 32GiB!), then they'd be 17 and could well be on
| here.
| lta wrote:
| I figure it's quite common for non native speaker, no ?
| anthomtb wrote:
| I am a native English speaker and never heard the word
| "semaphore" until taking CS classes in college. I cannot
| think of a common use for the term, unlike flag (see them
| all the time), register (do that with cars and schools) or
| stack (lots of those in my kitchen).
| perilunar wrote:
| > register (do that with cars and schools)
|
| I would think computer register comes from the noun, not
| the verb -- think cash register, not to register a car.
| theandrewbailey wrote:
| Or the covering of an air vent in a house.
| anthomtb wrote:
| I agree, I was just trying to think of how the word
| "register" comes up in casual conversation.
|
| I cannot think of a way that "semaphore" would come up in
| non-nerd conversation at all.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| Even as a native speaker, I had been using the programming
| concept for a few years before I discovered the signaling
| doohickey.
| lkbm wrote:
| I only knew about non-computer semaphores from the
| Swallows and Amazons books (which are from the 1930s and
| 1940s). If my mom hadn't read those books to me as a
| child, I don't know that I'd have come across the
| concept.
|
| "Token ring" is something I learned in networking, and
| the Wikipedia article doesn't mention railroads at all. I
| assume that's where the term comes from, but I only heard
| about railway signalling tokens decades later. (I think
| they may have appeared in the Thomas the Tank Engine
| stories on Shining Time Station, but I was quite young at
| the time.)
| rfmoz wrote:
| In this case, the term semaphore is equivalent to optical
| telegraph.
|
| The separation isn't completely clear, but take a semaphore
| like a basic tool that produces signals with a strong
| predefined signification, like a red light in a highway traffic
| light. The optical telegraph have a basic signification on
| their symbols, like letters or numbers, but a wide range of
| meanings, like the message transmission.
|
| Take a look to the wikipedia information:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
| shakow wrote:
| And the programming semaphore comes from the semaphore used as
| train signal to ensure that two trains are not using the same
| track segment simultaneously.
| surfsvammel wrote:
| Semaphores are also used on shooting ranges.
| julian_t wrote:
| Yes! Here's a real life example:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatley_Heath
| cassianoleal wrote:
| The Portuguese and Spanish word for it, semaforo, is what
| traffic lights are called at least in parts of Latin America.
|
| I always interpreted the programming meaning as that - traffic
| lights.
| kzrdude wrote:
| Moving arms also predate traffic lights for the same function
| - see trains
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_semaphore_signal
| gpderetta wrote:
| It is the same in Italian (semaforo).
| alberto_ol wrote:
| And also in Italy (semaforo) and I think in Romania (semafor)
| Lolaccount wrote:
| How I understand "semaphore"
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VFnDxRc_wU
| LoveMortuus wrote:
| I wonder if there are any good keyboards that are part of
| trousers, but that are also hidden, you know not immediately
| obvious that you've got a keyboard on your trousers.
|
| Then you could have a computer in the pocket or a bag and a HUD!
| That could be very cool!
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| I had a coworker write a little app to vibrate with Morse code
| at incoming messages, and turn the entire screen into a single
| button that he could tap out replies.
|
| It worked well enough.
| flir wrote:
| I thought you were just pleased to see me.
| daliusd wrote:
| You can integrate 30% or smaller wireless keyboard (with
| Elite-C) in your trousers IMHO. This would address "good" part
| (think something like this https://www.tzcl.me/blog/rae-dux but
| without PCB and wired using wires). At least I use adux
| keyboard of similar size daily. Or you can go even smaller with
| something like this https://artsey.io/ but I am not sure if
| this could be considered good. Next part would be concealing it
| - kailh low profile are too high IMHO for pants. There are
| switches that are even lower but most probably this might not
| work. I guess captive touch sensors might be solution but I am
| not sure if they would work well as keyboard. I guess some art
| would help concealing as well.
|
| Still I don't feel this would be really comfortable to type on.
| flir wrote:
| Just as an fyi, that second device is a chorded keyboard. I
| only mention it because the name's not on the page.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
| serf wrote:
| the only keyboard that requires supportive underwear rather than
| a palm rest.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Looks exhausting, but loved the exclamation marks!
| alex-moon wrote:
| Every now and again I try and explain to non-coders why a
| software engineer might build something "just to see if I can" -
| and that a lot of the software they use probably started out as
| such. The video captures that so well!
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| Missed an opportunity to do YMCA
| kieto wrote:
| https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4?t=160
| microbass wrote:
| It's in the video.
| darylteo wrote:
| And a new speedcoding e-sport is born!
| [deleted]
| kieto wrote:
| The YouTube video is even funnier: https://youtu.be/h376W93gQq4
| jonplackett wrote:
| I wonder how long it took to learn the actions.
|
| A dance revolution style tutorial would be fun
| fheisler wrote:
| It only took me a couple days to learn all the signals and
| work out the modifiers, but about ten days of ~an hour a day
| after that of speeding things up. Maybe I'll make my own
| instructional 80s workout video for it...
| jonplackett wrote:
| I think you could turn this into a game - Dance Hero or
| something. With a ridiculous storyline where you have to
| send signals with the power of dance to save the world
| tough wrote:
| I dig it, send signals to the aliens asking for a rescue
| with the only Fatline capacitator left in earth which
| happens to only take dance inputs
| jonplackett wrote:
| It practically writes itself!
| Mxbonn wrote:
| The part where he jumps to repeat a letter is both smart and
| funny to watch. Indeed, highly recommended watching the full
| video!
| cycomanic wrote:
| I can't believe he only has ~1.5k subscribers, he's absolutely
| hilarious! I highly recommend everyone to watch that video.
| vamega wrote:
| I subscribed, the humor convinced with the execution here is
| what I could do with more of!
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| That blew me away, too. Most of his videos have under 1000
| views. How is that possible?
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| The way that the "hello world" in the youtube video is synced
| with music made me think that it would be awesome to make music
| this way, to translate the body movements to sound. A kind of
| reverse dancing -- rather then dancing to the music, the music
| would be created to your dance.
| madeofpalk wrote:
| The short shorts were not required, but appreciated
| bartvk wrote:
| And the '80s style sweatbands, genius.
| HopenHeyHi wrote:
| He mentions Semaphore signaling was invented by Claude Chappe
| and then proceeds to make fun of him for being French which I
| don't find acceptable.
| [deleted]
| samanator wrote:
| I rewatched that part of the video and don't see where he
| made fun of him. Are you referring to when he mentions that
| Claude Chappe was "big-brained" and zooms in on his head? If
| so, that sounds like a compliment to me.
| [deleted]
| worthless-trash wrote:
| "Big brain" is definitely a compliment, I can support this
| use of terminology.
| HopenHeyHi wrote:
| I accidentally a word
| mikrotikker wrote:
| Don't surrender your emotions to jokes.
| FredPret wrote:
| This video is worth a watch just for the 1-second YMCA section.
| 2:43
| thrdbndndn wrote:
| He didn't show his real SSN, right?
| ToDougie wrote:
| This video was a great way to start my day!
| munchler wrote:
| "My glutes were burning from having had to file my taxes
| earlier."
|
| Definitely a brand new sentence.
| FredPret wrote:
| Surprising since tax season makes my glutal area hurt every
| time
| stronglikedan wrote:
| Serious Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio vibes!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HJexftddVw
|
| EDIT: I just realized that it's the same guy behind this gem,
| that I randomly ran across a few months back!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BQ2Q_pqI
|
| (I Made a Remote Lie Detector to Test Zuckerberg's Pulse)
| FredPret wrote:
| This guy needs to be famous. ~150 likes on this video. It
| should be a million!
| fheisler wrote:
| Thanks! Today has certainly been a good jumpstart :)
| timetraveller26 wrote:
| This is so cool. Any idea of the state of the art to do this with
| hand gestures? I wanted to do something like this but in the
| style of the Naruto seals used to perform ninjutsu.
| fheisler wrote:
| I've seen lots of examples of interpreting sign language, but
| not general/customizable gestures. Should be very doable
| though!
| markus_zhang wrote:
| Finally mom won't worry about my health anymore! Programmers we
| dance to program! That's a lot of calories burned I think.
| elif wrote:
| Please consider support for emacs chording with Ctrl and
| meta/alt.
|
| Perhaps DDR-esque foot placement?
| 1-6 wrote:
| A solution looking for a problem indeed!
| fsiefken wrote:
| You could get a slight speedup by matching letter frequency with
| easiest/fastest semaphore, similar as to morse code and dvorak
| typing do it. You loose compatibility with the rest of the world
| though, but if you are only using it for personal typing it's not
| a problem. You could also do a braille mapping instead of using
| semaphor so braille readers can get a workout.
|
| A good way to play interactive fiction games: X, I, U, D, N, S,
| W, E, Z, OPEN, CLOSE, GIVE, ASK/TELL ABOUT
| https://www.microheaven.com/ifguide/step3.html
| ashton314 wrote:
| And I thought I had RSI...
| bealuga wrote:
| I love this oh my god.I didn't know what I was expecting by a
| "full body keyboard", but I'm sold.
| radiorental wrote:
| I'm reusing this for our next hackathon, this will be an awesome
| & fun way to write PromQL queries
| neom wrote:
| I couldn't figure out why he was wearing all the French gear, the
| author isn't french...! I presume it's a nod to the Frenchman,
| Claude Chappe, who invented Flag semaphore, the system he build
| it with. @fheisler, if you happened to see this, please let me
| know if I'm right! :)
| fheisler wrote:
| Hm which gear was particularly French? I was just channeling
| 80s aerobics workout in the intro, or the style of the songs
| played in the video.
| failrate wrote:
| Your wristbands look like the French flag.
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| And the Netherlands flag, so...
| fheisler wrote:
| [dead]
| neom wrote:
| In the gif on your github, all the "workout" gear colours are
| blue white and red, the colours of the French flag. If it was
| a happenstance, maybe you can just say it was on purpose,
| so...er.. I don't need to tell my therapist I'm reading too
| much into everything again?
| [deleted]
| rodelrod wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,
| _...
| harrylove wrote:
| There's probably quite a few kindergartens that could benefit
| from having something like this installed.
| fencepost wrote:
| If you haven't done so already, see if you can connect with
| someone on the music side, particularly someone used to working
| with programmable sound buttons. The combination of your setup
| plus programmed sound macros could result in something
| fascinating.
| mft_ wrote:
| It could certainly be used to trigger samples, combined with a
| looper[0][1]?
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBwRfQbXkg
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_SlqwtUXI
| smokel wrote:
| This reminded me of the esoteric programming language Bodyfuck
| (2010) by Nik Hanselmann:
|
| http://nik.works/project/bodyfuck/
| waltbosz wrote:
| Cool project. I've always wanted to learn the semaphore alphabet,
| and I'm interested in alternative keyboards.
|
| The lifeguards at the beach I visit use it to communicate to each
| other from between lifeguard stands, and I'm always curious what
| they saying.
|
| Plus, I thought it would be fun to be able to communicate with
| them in their own secret(ish) language.
| kqr wrote:
| It's highly likely they are communicating in a shorthand that
| isn't meaningful to you even if you could read the individual
| letters!
| user3939382 wrote:
| Reminds me of the (was it family guy?) parody of the
| starship/trek captain who makes crazy contortions as he speaks.
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| Genius! Next up: Oauth plug-in so you can authenticate with your
| own unique "dance". Reminds me of the OA.
| fheisler wrote:
| Ooh yes, I wonder if you could use it like gait recognition to
| define your own not-easy-to-replicate motion. My dance is my
| password...
| worthless-trash wrote:
| I can imagine banks using this as 2FA for the next
| generation.
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