I am supposed to take a seminar on some technical topic at the communication skills lab, the day after tomorrow. I thought I would just read something about video game controllers and give a small talk. (yea yea, i chose this topic only to make sure every one listens to me.. ;D)

But preparing for the topic turned out to be extremely interesting and exciting to me, because they have a lot more of instrumentation, than I had expected. Infact, they have more to do with instrumentation, than with any other field.

The potentiometers used in the joysticks, the accelerometers for motion sensing, and the piezoelectric vibrators for force feedback were all part of my curriculum, and this particular application excites me.

I must go and prepare for the presentation now. I want to share this excitement with my classmates too. Hope it goes well.

Check this link: http://scienceline.org/2006/12/18/motioncontrollers/