{"id":4497,"date":"2010-10-11T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:59:37","slug":"engineering-grads-earn-attention-for-eye-controlled-super-mario-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/10\/engineering-grads-earn-attention-for-eye-controlled-super-mario-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering grads earn attention for eye-controlled Super Mario play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December<\/a>, we wrote about Baylor grad Hunter Smith (BS ’08) and his work with an Austin-based group of engineers in modifying a car so it could be driven by an iPhone app. How would Smith ever top that?<\/p>\n

Easy; he and another BU alum, Chris Culver (BS ’08), worked on Waterloo Labs<\/a>‘ latest project: a system that allows you to play video games like the original Super Mario Brothers with your eyes<\/em>. Sound crazy? They explain the basics and demonstrate how it works in the video below<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Like the iPhone car app, the eye-controlled Mario story has earned some nice publicity for these Baylor grads, with stories running on FoxNews.com<\/a>, PC World<\/a>, Engadget<\/a>, Wired<\/a>, Popular Science<\/a>, and even an extended segment on an Australian morning show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we noted previously, the engineers at Waterloo Labs tackle such projects simply because they enjoy testing the limits of their own abilities while having fun with do-it-yourself-type projects — much like TV’s Mythbusters<\/a>. It’s a great way to have a good time while sharpening their engineering skills — the ones Smith and Culver learned right here at Baylor.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Hunter and Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December, we wrote about Baylor grad Hunter Smith (BS ’08) and his work with an Austin-based group of engineers in modifying a car so it could be driven by an iPhone app. How would Smith ever top that? Easy; he and another BU alum, Chris Culver (BS ’08), worked on Waterloo Labs‘ latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun","category-research","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}