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Jean Perardel<\/a>\u00a0has taken several Arduino Fio<\/a>\u00a0boards, 6-Degrees-of-Free sensors and a Wii Nunchuck and attached them to his body to detect movement and orientation. The signals are received by an Arduino Micro and a Raspberry Pi is then used to interpret the incoming data and produce a gamified virtual reality representation of the movement which it outputs over HDMI. You can read more over on Hackaday.io<\/a>\u00a0and see how one sensor affects the game character in the GIF below:<\/p>\n

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Jean Perardel\u00a0has taken several Arduino Fio\u00a0boards, 6-Degrees-of-Free sensors and a Wii Nunchuck and attached them to his body to detect movement and orientation. The signals are received by an Arduino Micro and a Raspberry Pi is then used to interpret…<\/p>\n

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