Hi,
I presented at the NIME 2010 conference a modest toolbox for pd. http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/PROCEEDINGS/papers/Demo%20Q1-Q15/P473_Frisson.pdf
DeviceCycle offers a currently small number of abstractions and objects to facilitate the rapid prototyping of gestural interfaces, using off-the-shelf devices (plug and play event mappings, filtering towards "gesture" recognition):
- Contour Design Pro2 and Xpress jog wheels, 3Dconnexion Space Navigator
3D mouse using [hidio] (hcs et al)
- Novint Falcon force-feedback 3D mouse using [np_nifalcon] (K. Machulis
et al, reusing also E. Berdhal's HSP toolbox)
- OSX-only Apple Macbook Unibody multitouch trackpad with a flext port
of [fingerpinger] from anyma.ch
The first alpha version is available here, and has been tested on OSX Leopard only so far: http://www.numediart.org/download/
Please send me your comments on the design and usability. The 2-finger rotation abstraction is still buggy!
I have other devices available (Hercules DJ Control MP3, Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch...), support pending.
It would be great once it is in an acceptable shape that it would be directly integrated into the pd-extended release! I've just read on the flext list that flext objects integration on pd-extended is underway.
Best, C.