DIY Full Body Trackers
A sorta failed project, but i learned a lot.
What do you mean “A sorta failed project”?
I fully finished all the trackers, but i still called it a failed project for two reasons:
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They worked HORRIBLY. I can’t tell if it was due to the SlimeVR software, or my crappy solder work, or if i just had bad parts, but every 2-3 minutes, one of the five trackers would have some issue. One would drift really bad and send my waist into the floor, then another one would shut off, then one would stop responding. It was a really bad ordeal
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The design was too ambitious. I’d seen these massive designs with sharp corners and stupid lights in the SlimeVR discord server, so I made it a pretty big goal to get them as tiny as possible. In my mission to make them as small as could be, I made them WAY too small, and ended up crushing most every solder joint. I also had to tape everything into the case, because the design was so thin I didn’t have adhesive strips thin enough to not interfere with the lid. Speaking of the lid, it would almost always come off anyways because of the wires pushing it out.
Why don’t you re-make them?
Because I don’t have the time to wait for the parts to come from China, I don’t have the patience to sit there for 3-4 hours and solder each one together, and I don’t have the temper to sit there and calibrate each one over and over again with no guarentee of it actually working.
What was this “Overly ambitious” design?
Heres a picture of what the 3D printed case looked like:
The prototype case was red and black, but i think the final case was printed in yellow and black. The case also featured an old Frantic Group logo.
TLDR; If you want SlimeVR trackers, just buy the official ones. You’d spend the $200 it’d cost to buy the set on parts and time anyways.