I saw an Atari Star Wars cockpit at Atari Cambridge Research Labs, with a huge mess of cables draping out of it, hooking it up to some other equipment.
Here are some demos of other stuff they did there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2CwKculBU&index=3&list=PL8...
I don’t remember that at all. Perhaps some haptic stuff Margaret was working on?
I'd love to be able to feel scraping against the edges and protrusions of the trench when I ran my tie fighter up against them!
I saw Margaret's force feedback joystick there too -- that was really cool. And also a robotic bear in Marvin's office.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Rt43H
Here's an image of Henry Minsky sacrificing his Dakin Bear to a robot:
Henry Minsky has a look of trepidation at the idea of sacrificing his Dakin Bear to one of his dad's robotics experiments. — with Dakin Bear at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [frame grab from the skeletal robot's video camera]
Henry wrote:
"This was the first image saved from Cog, Brook's humanoid robot head. I was going to skin the bear and put it over the robot head.
But I couldn't bring myself to do so, even though Cog looked like the Terminator."
MIT's Cog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZ9_rUZZMA
In 1992 my housemate had a Star Wars kiosk, which I sure got a lot of practice on...
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22bong$20hit%22$20...
Those links see a blast from the past. We were so young back then!
You don't say? ;) Check out David Levitt's music demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwsVkqEKys