Lab@Home Update: Gaming Soap!

Today I spent some time to do more lab work, and settled on making a Gaming Soap.

What soap you ask?

Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion and reports it as position input. Soap offers many of the benefits of optical mice, such as high-accuracy sensing.

Oh, and it’s under development by Microsoft Research, so it’s quite something if you aren’t convinced.

So yup, I started my construction of a gaming soap, and at the end of the day, I maanged to get the internal electronics done, so here’s the progress so far!