Using a webcam, the Steam Controller can now seek out it's charger by vibrating across the desk

Next thing ya know, it's gonna lock onto you like a target and bzzzzzt bzzzzzt run after you - while you *and* the controller are *both* screaming. How fun!

Nice. For some reason this particular video wasn't there when I checked it. I update my reply.

Fourth link

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU

• YouTube (embed): https://www.youtube.com/embed/hwq-xr2fDBU

• Invidious (instance list): https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU

• Invidious (nadeko.net instance): https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU

I'm a native English speaker, and still every time I write something I read it back and expand every "it's" into "it is" or "it has" in my head, just to make sure. And replace every "its" with "his" or "hers".

It's even worse with on screen keyboards, because sometimes even if I typed it right, the autocorrect will "fix it", so I have to reread.

My English Achille's heel

it's charger

it is charger

And no-one actually uses it. Well done them, rich without consequences, living the dream.

I suppose thats true.

is it pointless if fun was the point?

Some people find fun to *be* the point

Same as your comment

I understand it was for fun too, doesn't make it any less pointless.

This was clearly a project someone did for fun, it's not meant to be practical or actually useful. Everyone else understands this and is making jokes about it, and you're lashing out at people acting like the joke responses were people being serious.

It should be obvious that it's not actually very helpful to have a controller that can charge itself, if placed within a few feet of a charger, on a perfectly flat surface, under a webcam, with a running computer and webapp managing the whole thing. It also wasn't useful to make a program to "drive" the controller with wasd. It also wasn't useful to make a program to sing chiptunes with the vibration motors. It wasn't even useful for valve to make the controller scream when dropped. It's just funny, and people are enjoying it.

Whoosh

Why not? Because if fucking stupid. It would take you longer to set this bullshit up than it would to just set it on the puck.

Sadly that's the risk of any innovation, that someone will use it to manipulate and abuse others for power or pleasure.

Also true! Though in a Roomba's case with room mapping, sometimes more terrifying... 😔

Well, also "as proof of a concept that may to lead to something more useful"

I was kinda joking with the Roomba comparison.

I could *kinda* see a use for this where the controller could wake itself up and try to plug itself in if the battery gets low, but the steam controller battery life is so good that it's a pretty low need

I've never been sold on the roomba idea, but vacuuming can take some time and physical effort depending on the size of the living/working space.

Putting a controller on a charging puck *should* take all of five seconds, to be generous. It even has magnets!

I feel like the real answer here with the controller is "because we can/because it's cool"

I know you think you are making a point but you aren't roombas do a shit job and you have to vacuum anyway.

I had a roomba it was garbage

Why would anyone buy a Roomba when they can just vacuum the floor themselves?

!Because it's there.

*Science isn't about "why?" it's about "why not?"*

Too much work.

But this appears to have some sort of built in gps that knows where to vibrate precisely.

Well at that age Andy is probably charging his controller all the time but I doubt that it would be in the movie.

But when not playing games he still tries to "charge" the controller, right?

Toy Story 2?

Yes, and then it becomes toy story 12, the latest pixar adventure where andy has moved on from the old toys and now plays videogames.

Look, if you just want something that vibrates there are a lot of easier ways to achieve that.

Oh... Well it'll keep trying though, right?

Then it won't find the charger :(

I drove my steam controller to work today.

This reminds me of the guy on sharktank that had an app for iPhone to take panoramic pictures on its own by standing up the phone on its edge and it used the vibrating frequency to move.

The app was nothing big or special and no one wanted. The programming on how they achieved it was all anyone wanted and they made a shit load of money selling it.

What if...I point the webcam...at other stuff?

But why? You can just.... put it on the charger.

its

`fEeD mE eLeCtRiCiTy`

To continue the listing what we got so far:

• play music: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=T0RHXColYXU

• Wilhelm scream: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Mc22cAIIP4g

• remote control: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=g-8S8zk4dn8

• *(new)* vision tracker: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=hwq-xr2fDBU

Uhhh that's scary please stay away from me Steam controller (cool too!)

Rehosted demo video:

!Demo Video