• By Andrew Spitz
  • Posted August 6th, 2012
  • Category Fun & Games

Super Angry Birds is a force feedback USB controller for Angry Birds that simulates the feeling of a slingshot. All the controls found in the game are available in this device. You can control the pull, angle, and of course trigger the special power of the bird.

We hacked a motorized fader found in audio mixing consoles to create the force feedback. Basically, the way we achieved this is by drawing a force curve and storing the values in a table, then we send the current position of the slider through the table and extract the value to send to the motor that applies an opposing force.

We programmed in Max/MSP and Arduino. For controlling the hardware, we used an Arduino-based microcontroller called Music.

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One Response to Super Angry Birds – A Tangible Controller

  1. joannapinkbird on said:

    I just throw turkeys at pigs at my local farm no point paying 59p waste of money thanks

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