From: joe-AT-dunfee.com
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:55:29 -0700
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] =?utf-8?q?Low-tech_motion_capture=3F?=


Wouldn't a joystick work with the same application, and perhaps give you
easier contacts to solder different connectors to?  I've never used
Flash, so don't know its capabilities, or what can be accepted as input.

I will mention that I made a computer puppet once.  I used LED's for the
face, and just switched the lower part of the mouth on-and-off to talk. 
That was over 2 years ago, so current technology allows for me to do it
on a flat screen.  But, I think that if I had it to do over again now, I
would do something even lower tech than the LED's.  

The point is to be a puppet interpretation of a computer, not a computer
itself.  when I did the LED's the first time around, it had a Gee-whizz
high-tech thing going for it.  But, now I can't really do that
successfully for an audience already familiar with talking computers. 
So, the low-tech approach would probably work to my advantage.

I guess sometimes high-tech works for you, and sometimes against you.

Joe Dunfee

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