{"id":2300,"date":"2012-05-10T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:16:54","slug":"im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He&#8217;s Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m going to build this, and see if I can&#39;t use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/makezineonline\/~3\/U_iNAEaWgPA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/makezineonline\/~3\/U_iNAEaWgPA\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmakezineblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Finertial-control-orb-for-spherical-display.jpg%3Fw%3D580\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">I&#39;ve previously identified Nirav Patel&#39;s homebrew spherical display unit, which I first covered in September 2011, as the coolest thing I wrote about that entire\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110201780316922068503\/posts\/fangjjcLP9d\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H4>Related Awesome<\/H4><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How to Save the Wii U, in 3 Simple Steps\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/how-save-wii-u-3-simple-steps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to Save the Wii U, in 3 Simple Steps<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Donglegate Should Be About Common Courtesy, Not Sexism\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/donglegate-common-courtesy-sexism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Donglegate Should Be About Common Courtesy, Not Sexism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Case for Dropping the WWW From URLs in Advertising\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/dropping-www\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Case for Dropping the WWW From URLs in Advertising<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m going to build this, and see if I can&#39;t use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit. Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display I&#39;ve previously identified Nirav Patel&#39;s homebrew spherical display unit, which I first covered in September 2011, as the coolest thing I wrote about that entire\u2026 This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,126,3,66],"tags":[9,194,120,78,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He&#039;s Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He&#039;s Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;m going to build this, and see if I can&#039;t use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit. Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display I&#039;ve previously identified Nirav Patel&#039;s homebrew spherical display unit, which I first covered in September 2011, as the coolest thing I wrote about that entire\u2026 This was [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Paper Awesome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PaperAwesome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-10T14:08:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-05-10T21:16:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmakezineblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Finertial-control-orb-for-spherical-display.jpg%3Fw%3D580\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mike DeVine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@pixelSHREDDER\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PaperAwesome\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mike DeVine\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/\",\"name\":\"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He's Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-10T14:08:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-10T21:16:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7edd96381b085348824c519645d9b52e\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Paper Awesome\",\"description\":\"Ideas, musings, rantings and brainfarts from an up-and-coming Creative\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7edd96381b085348824c519645d9b52e\",\"name\":\"Mike DeVine\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0456208b9e5e03f4eef16c87817399?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0456208b9e5e03f4eef16c87817399?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mike DeVine\"},\"description\":\"Hey! I'm Mike. My goal in life is to use my skills in technology to make the world a better place; as such, I've gained experience in both the programming and artistic sides of digital development. I've tried to balance my work with a little bit of everything, from drawings and sketches to ActionScript. I figure the broader my knowledge and skills, the better I'll be able to work with others in specialized roles. Aside from playing video games, I try to keep my interests as broad as possible. There's no substitute for experience when it comes to good ideas, and so I try to soak up any new experience I can get- I never know when it may inspire me in my work. Journalism, electronics, inventing, landscaping, telemarketing- I've had experience working in so many fields it can be hard to keep track of it all sometimes. But it all inspires me in one way or another. Having an entrepreneurial spirit and an insatiable appetite for learning new things doesn't hurt either.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelSHREDDER\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He's Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He's Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome","og_description":"I&#39;m going to build this, and see if I can&#39;t use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit. Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display I&#39;ve previously identified Nirav Patel&#39;s homebrew spherical display unit, which I first covered in September 2011, as the coolest thing I wrote about that entire\u2026 This was [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/","og_site_name":"Paper Awesome","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PaperAwesome","article_published_time":"2012-05-10T14:08:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-05-10T21:16:54+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmakezineblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Finertial-control-orb-for-spherical-display.jpg%3Fw%3D580"}],"author":"Mike DeVine","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@pixelSHREDDER","twitter_site":"@PaperAwesome","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mike DeVine"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/","url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/","name":"This Dude Made a Spherical Display- Now He's Made a Spherical Input Device to Control it With - Paper Awesome","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-05-10T14:08:11+00:00","dateModified":"2012-05-10T21:16:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7edd96381b085348824c519645d9b52e"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/im-going-to-build-this-and-see-if-i-cant-use-it\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/","name":"Paper Awesome","description":"Ideas, musings, rantings and brainfarts from an up-and-coming Creative","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7edd96381b085348824c519645d9b52e","name":"Mike DeVine","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0456208b9e5e03f4eef16c87817399?s=96&d=retro&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3a0456208b9e5e03f4eef16c87817399?s=96&d=retro&r=g","caption":"Mike DeVine"},"description":"Hey! I'm Mike. My goal in life is to use my skills in technology to make the world a better place; as such, I've gained experience in both the programming and artistic sides of digital development. I've tried to balance my work with a little bit of everything, from drawings and sketches to ActionScript. I figure the broader my knowledge and skills, the better I'll be able to work with others in specialized roles. Aside from playing video games, I try to keep my interests as broad as possible. There's no substitute for experience when it comes to good ideas, and so I try to soak up any new experience I can get- I never know when it may inspire me in my work. Journalism, electronics, inventing, landscaping, telemarketing- I've had experience working in so many fields it can be hard to keep track of it all sometimes. But it all inspires me in one way or another. Having an entrepreneurial spirit and an insatiable appetite for learning new things doesn't hurt either.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com","https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelSHREDDER"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2389,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/this-guy-has-apparently-figured-out-every-last-det\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":0},"title":"Man Says We Could Build an Enterprise in Just 20 Years","date":"May 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This guy has apparently figured out every last detail- right down to the porkbarrel spending from Congress- to make building a bonafide, functional USS Enterprise a reality in under two decades. I have no idea how feasible his ideas are, save one- his theory of using nuclear reactors as the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google+&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/why-google-drive-matters-but-apis-matter-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":1},"title":"Why Google Drive Matters But APIs Matter More","date":"April 25, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"Why Google Drive matters but APIs matter more","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ideas &amp; Projects&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2456,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/holy-crap-google-web-fonts\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":2},"title":"Holy Crap, Google Web Fonts","date":"May 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember hearing about\u00a0Google Web Fonts\u00a0a while back and thinking, \"Huh. This could be cool eventually.\" Flash-forward to now, and I'm blown away by how much this pet project has progressed. Embeddable fonts aren't just a neat trick anymore, limited to web developers with too much time and bandwidth on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ideas &amp; Projects&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2296,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/this-might-actually-become-a-viable-reality-once\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":3},"title":"Apparently There&#8217;s a Ghost in The Shell Prequel in The Works","date":"May 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This might actually become a viable reality, once we create the most important artificial organ of all- the brain.The Immortal \u2014 a Circuit of Organ Replacement Machineshttp:\/\/vimeo.com\/41160704 The Immortal is a work of art by Revital Cohen. A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google+&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2299,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/merit-badges-for-adults-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":4},"title":"Merit Badges For Adults","date":"May 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's like Cub Scouts all over again- only this time I don't have Power Rangers on TV to distract me from earning these babies.Fun Skill Patches Offered by AdafruitPhil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google+&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7,"url":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/nice\/","url_meta":{"origin":2300,"position":5},"title":"Nice: The World&#8217;s First Electric Pace Car","date":"April 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"NiceSay watts? Electric pace car set for RichmondFord Motor Company will become the first manufacturer in NASCAR history to supply an all-electric car as the pace car.This was posted on Google+\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Google+&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}