From: Robin Hollands <R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: HOME-BREW: Dataglove
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:22:22 +0100
Message-ID: <3357677E.4E2@shef.ac.uk>
Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield 


wes wrote:
> 
> I was going to try to take on one of the projects that are listed in Robin
> Hollands book regarding the datagloves, which one would be the most cost
> efficient and or easiest to come by parts for? I have a powerglove that
> doesnt work with the parallel port(computer is too fast), should I
> dismantle it and REMAKE a glove from the ground up?

Why not ask the author (that's what my email address is in the front
of the book for!)? Your best choice really depends on what you want
the glove for. The Powerglove is a pretty good buy for hand tracking,
but the finger flexion measurement is rather poor. You can strip the
plastic off down to the sensors, but you'll still need an A/D
converter to read those sensors at a reasonable
resolution. Incidentally the carbon-ink bend sensors offered by Images
Company (NY) (used in one of the book's projects) are now the AGE
versions. The carbon ink sensor glove is certainly the easisest (and
probably the cheapest) of the glove projects.  Why not strip your
Powerglove down (carefully!), reconnect the bend sensors as in the
carbon-ink glove projects and reattach the ultrasonic tracker using
the Pentium-friendly code posted to sci.virtual-worlds a few days ago?

Cheers,

Robin

Email: r.hollands@sheffield.ac.uk
WWW:   http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/staff/rjh/rjh.html
BOOK:  http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/vrhmhb/vrhmhb.html