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1. Wireless Inertial Arduino Data Glove v0.3

by Noah Zerkin

7 months ago

Check out the new video on our promotional blog at zerkinglove.com

This is a quick vid of one of my later prototype glove units. The software is a proof-of-concept exercise. Regardless, you should be able to get the gist of what I'm trying to do. The thing that makes this special is how insanely inexpensive it was to build. The ultimate aim is to create a low-cost modular full-body interaction capture system for use in gaming, AR, and creative applications. The first commercial app I'm targeting for integration is Maya. After that, we'll look at integration with a game engine. I'm not sure what a glove/arm kit will cost, but it should be under $250 (Perhaps well under... we'll see... there are costs besides parts). Mass-production units would cost considerably less.

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falldeaf 7 months ago

Wow, very cool. If you're looking for a 3d engine I would have a look at panda3d (panda3d.com) It's a pretty powerful engine and you can prototype things quickly in python. It's got a modern 3d engine feature set. You can create geometry programatically and the newest revision has support for manipulating 3d meshes during run-time. Maybe your interface could be a good tool for 3d artists in this way? :)
endolith 7 months ago

The problem with gloves is that they're always on your hands. You have to take them off any time you need to touch something or do something that might get them dirty.

I don't know how realistic it is, but whenever I imagine "typing" or "mousing" with a wearable, I imagine armbands. You would still use accelerometers/gyroscopes to measure the position of the forearm, but the movement of the fingers would be deduced from the motion of the muscles in the forearm that move them, so the fingers would be uncovered and free to do all the things that fingers were made to do. There are a number of ways the muscles might be measured, though I'm not sure which are most feasible. I know detection of hand gripping has been done with stretch sensors around the forearm.

Then I imagine using Bluetooth to emulate a standard keyboard and mouse, so you can walk up to a public terminal and start entering text into it without having to touch anything, "type" on a desktop computer with your hands in a relaxed position in the lap, hold your phone up with one hand while the other enters text into it from a neutral position at your side, etc.
Frantz Lasorne 7 months ago

Woah! This absolutely so cool!
I am really interested in the fact that you are mixing the glove interaction with the HMD just using sensors and not camera IR tracking or similar... That means, you are completely free and not constraint to the field of view of a specific space and camera... More over it is a way so cheap technology like the Nintendo Wiimote. If the movements of the HMD and the movements of the glove are well calibrated together I can already imagine a lot of applications and games… Now if you could add force feedback in it, like when you grab the ball you can sense the weight and its surface it would be perfect ^^.
Really good job mon frère ;-)
Noah Zerkin 7 months ago

:-D Thanks, Frantz! My work still leaves a little to be desired for calibration and filtering, but I'm working on it. As of tomorrow I should have everything necessary to get both gloves and torso orientation coming in smoothly. And I have a few ideas using vibration motors and even air-bladders in the the fingertips, though I feel like that particular idea starts to make things a little too isolating from the real world... so I may just stick with motors and/or solenoids for now. We'll see. I'm having to pick and choose what trees I bark up at this point and, so far, all of the communication has been one-way back to the computer, and I'll have to change that for haptics. Thank you so much for the compliment :-)

And anyone else reading this: check out Frantz's project if you haven't already. Lots and lots of awesome :-D
Josef Průša 7 months ago

Awesome
Wray Bowling 6 months ago

Have you heard of GameTrak? It was a mostly forgotten-about system. I'm going to buy one. You should too. They're only $8.00
Flash Jockey 5 months ago

great job but i think u use so much hardware -.-
Alpay Kasal 4 months ago

great work... and great Bebop tshirt!!! :)
João Monteiro 3 months ago

Very nice, keep it up!
Surya Sharma 2 months ago

Hey, I'm a student from India and was planning on the same thing.

Is your work closed source or will you be sharing any details?

Also, could you tell me the time and budget you had for this? I've been given a measly 100$ one for now.