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by hombre_fatal19 hours ago |
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upvoteby clayhacks18 hours ago|
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No? It says “pilots the controller” which is fairly vague of the cause and effects going on. I think a real human would clarify the controller motors being used to physically move the controller.
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upvoteby a3w5 hours ago|
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What even is a "controller", it pilots the gamepad. Controller could mean the AR controllers, too.
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upvoteby serf17 hours ago|
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yes?

it says it uses the haptic motors like within 2 or 3 sentences, it says it 'slams the controller into the puck until it charges', it says it uses an overhead camera, and it even says that it navigates the controller to the puck using the motors and camera further down if you don't feel like taking the 3 seconds to connect the dots.

a video would've been nice, but I would've communicated this the same way and i'm not an llm, even if this thing may have been written by one, nor did I have any problem understanding the intent - not a brag, it just doesn't seem that strange to me.

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upvoteby jorvi16 hours ago|
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Any human would have taglined this "vibrate to magnetic charging puck with computer vision".

It just feels horribly low effort. Respect your fellow man.

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upvoteby ssl-311 hours ago|
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They put some code together and published it for all to use, with an MIT license, that lets a game controller wiggle itself over to a charging puck using computer vision. That's pretty neat.

If you want the documentation to be written to a standard that is more to your liking, then you're free to submit a PR or fork it -- or do just about anything else you want with it (including ignoring its existence).

Respect your fellow man.

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upvoteby stevage7 hours ago|
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These are the weirdest criticisms. It seems totally normal to me for engineers to be bad at explaining their project to a lay audience. Whereas that's the kind of thing that LLMs are great at.
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upvoteby bee_rider3 hours ago|
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Anyway, it’s a little free hobbyist project, right? Documentation is extra, not expected.
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upvoteby geon8 hours ago|
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No. I thought it meant the haptic feedback was for a human to make it easier to find the charger in the dark ir something.
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upvoteby Gigachad17 hours ago|
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It doesn’t say haptic motor anywhere. The only reference to how it moves in the whole thing is “internal dual Linear Resonant Actuators” which seems intentionally obtuse and even that is buried in the depths surrounded by a ton of unimportant detail.
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