You could mod it with Infrared leds and a variety of camera solutions/software. Kinect on Steroids.
Similar concept, the stylus/pen is an infra-red bulb which would instead be your glove.
Yea, so it’s been a while. I realised that a this project wasn’t ever going to get done if I just worked on it a few hours every weekend, so this week I decided to take it more seriously…
First order of business was modding the micro USB plug.
It was too big to fit inside the wrist housing with 3 PCBs
That’s much better!
21 tact switches on my custom PCB. I’ll get more into what we’re looking at here later, but at this point I’m preparing 16 of the buttons to fit on the second multiplexer.
My ability to solder is noticeably improving. I’m getting better at tinting wires and minimizing the amount of solder I use.
The red wires are for the binary coded switch board on the multiplexer. I intentionally left the wires long so that I could more easily test and diagnose problems with a multi-meter.
Need to pinch every square inch of room out that I can. there was a recess in the bottom of the wrist housing that was perfect for the multiplexer and pro micro, but it wasn’t shallow enough. Since there was a floor under the wrist housing, I opted to cut out the sub floor for extra room.
Almost done! the remaining 5 buttons wont fit on the remaining digital pins on the Arduino, so instead I’m going to run them all on a single rail into an analog pin. between each button on the analog side is a resistor, so the analog pin will measure different resistance values for different buttons!
Now THAT is a project! Let’s just scale it back so that we can see the new stuff better.
Yellow wires are signal. I messed up on this schematic and have the green signal wire going to power. It’s actually going to a digital pin, since I only need to see if a button is on or off. All other green wires are the power rail, black is ground, and the orange wire is the signal wire for the buttons that couldn’t fit on the multiplexer.
Holy shit this is a big project. I’m glad I’m doing it, but at the same time I wish I had better prepared for what was to come. My 5 button arrangement on the analog pin is giving me the same reading for 2 buttons, but I expect to have that fixed tomorrow. After that I just have to sew her up and code her. Thaaaaaatle be fun. It’s a bit daunting, but also immensely rewarding to see a large scale project like this come together.
I can’t think of any way to add ventilation to the top of the glove without ruining it’s appearance. None I’m willing to risk trying anyway. Anyone else got ideas?
Hey, that might work…
If you can get that to work on your power glove, pass me the code. If it’s smaller than the IMU code I have running I might just have to switch over.