Credit: fossprime via IG Ray Foss built an open-source project that turns the Steam Controller's haptic vibration motors into a locomotion system - allowing the controller to navigate itself to its charging dock without any external motors, wheels, or robotic arms. An overhead camera tracks the controller's real-time position and orientation. Computer vision calculates the path to the magnetic charging puck. The software then fires precisely timed vibration pulses through the built-in haptic motors, which nudge the controller across the desk surface in the correct direction, adjusting continuously as it approaches and slowing before docking. The engineering insight here is using hardware designed for one purpose - tactile feedback - to do something it was never intended to do. Haptic motors create vibration. Vibration on a surface creates movement. Movement can be directed. That chain of logic is the entire project. It combines computer vision, browser-based hardware access, and timing precision to solve a robotics problem with parts that already existed in the device.
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My neighbour has one of those, she has hers set to charge at night, I can hear that it roams around her big table in the bedroom late every night
"I require electricity user"
Her: Don't worry, I'm just playing video games with my new controller The controller she told you not to worry about:
Lets talk about that keyboard...
"I have no electricity and I must vibrate"
That beat was bangin'. Kinda sounded like the beautiful people
"Whats my purpose" "You Self charge"
This was probably designed by one of their engineers as a fun side project. Meanwhile, I got excited that I made a pixel move on the screen.
I had that exact same keyboard in 1995...
me forgetting to put it on charge before bed and its waking me up at 2 in the morning to charge itself
"FEEEEEEEED MEEEEEEEE"
This is the Psycho Mantis edition controller. Hidden features: It also reads your mind and knows what other Konami games you’ve played…and it can hide you in a cardboard box
Imagine waking up by that sound because you slept in after one too many rounds 😂
That would be so annoying when your trying to go to bed
Also that’s an ergonomic Keyboard of IBM PS/2, with cylinder arc aluminium key holder inside (keys moving vectors are not parallel except those in the same line)
Ok WTF 😮 I want that
We weren't lazy enough yet. Nice job!
A nice idea. Terrifying in practice. Imagine being sound asleep
Hearing that at 4 am after going to bed at 2am would actually have the potential to make me rage harder than gaming
*starts singing along* im going out tonight - im feeling alright