Playing Atari 2600 with your hands as motion controls

2021-11-16 | By Eran Feit

License: Attribution Raspberry Pi SBC

This new, amazing concept of playing Atari 2600 games is based on using your hands instead of a joystick.
Every movement in the game is done by the hands. You can control the game with no joystick. Yes, no Joystick!!!

The project has the ability to detect body gestures to simulate the directions: up, down, left, right, and action like "clicking the button".

Here is the YouTube URL for the full video: https://youtu.be/vJO6nMwUBXw

This is the project connecting diagram:

These are more photos of the final project:

The project is based on Python code, Raspberry PI, computer vision libraries, and transformation of the hand signal to a electricity signal (like a joystick simulation).