Show HN: Let your body be the gamepad using a webcam (github.com)
I made a keyboard emulator that tracks your body pose and emits the key presses accordingly.
My main motivation was to make my kids move more on rainy days. I already made a couple of mini-games using the body pose [1-3], and those were definitely fun to make and play! However, once the kids learned the tricks, they got bored. I could only produce that much content myself, and soon realized that I lack time for churning out games.
Finally, I decided to tap into an endless pool of PC games, preferrably simple and less addictive ones like the Gameboy and DOS games.
This project has been also inspired by [4], which has been featured on HN recently.
[1]: https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop
[2]: https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop
[3]: https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop/
[4]: https://github.com/everythingishacked/Semaphore
Edit: clarified title; layout of references
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.4 ms ] threadA friend of mine uses these games in the classroom as a primary school teacher. Kids here all have a laptop, so when they get nervous, it's a neat way for them to make a break & move a bit. Apparently, this works well for kids with hyperactive tendencies. Kinect would be too complicated in that setting as you need to purchase & maintain 20+ Kinects.