Near Future Laboratory’s “Scale” is an experiment in solenoids, cheating and getting power output just right.
Not knowing a heck of a lot about solenoids in practice – I know what they do, and, as an example of the sometimes impracticality of higher-ed, am fairly fluent in the E&M principles at work here. But, when it comes to the practical matter of finding one with the necessary “umph” to articulate a simple controller’s buttons, it’s all guess work.
The first attempt, using cheap $2 solenoids, couldn’t even depress the buttons. The final setup works, NFL reports, but is “less umph-y” than one 24 volt set previously experimented with.
Scale [NFL]
And yet the orange button still gets ignored by the masses, humans and solenoids alike.
I concur with Slugabed. This alone isn’t gonna be able to play GH.
It would be fun if there was a controller for the artificial fingers, so you could play GH remotely.
I’m not sure what this does exactly. Is this a smaller part of another project somewhere? Pressing the buttons is only half the battle. It has to know when to push them.