Tuesday, 23 October 2007

The IPAC Card


We have been looking at using IPAC cards today, which is a card that can be plugged into a computer to replicate a keyboard. From this different sensory equipment e.g. pressure pads, or arcade buttons, or magnetic sensors. This can allow animations to use several different methods of input, which takes away the standard use of a simply keyboard and a mouse. An IPAC card consquently allows an animation to be triggered by a user without them knowing, taking it to another level that goes alot further than pressing a button and something happening as a result.

We were set the task to create an animation using the Ipac card, to include a daisy chain i.e. more than one input and to include a magnetic input.

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