This has to be one of the coolest hacks EVER!

Posted at 11:20 am on Feb 9th, 2006 by Mooga

those power gloves were great looking but a big disappointment in performance. Interesting use of the motion sensing mouse

Posted at 11:22 am on Feb 9th, 2006 by alan

My sr. design team actually built a mouse using an accelerometer and flex sensors (variable resistors). Unfortunately I no longer have any links to it online, but it won second place at the annual RIT design competition in 2005.

Posted at 11:29 am on Feb 9th, 2006 by seth

Um A gyro sensor is way better then an accelerometer. This is the same tech that the new rev controlelr will use.

So they dont need one when a gyro is even better

Posted at 11:31 am on Feb 9th, 2006 by Majortom1981

Not bad, but I’ve been working on a similar project, and I found out a couple of things. For instance, it looks like it might be possible to get rid of the second circuit board that houses the “laser” for reading table-top movement. When you seperate the two boards, (they come apart quite easily thanks to several pins that fit into a nice plug) you can short two of the pins (i’ll look up which ones tonight and post again) and get a reaction from the top unit not unlike the one you see when the bottom board is in. Coincidence? Maybe. I still need to test it. But if it works, you could easily remove a good section of your project, AND cut down on battery drain.

Posted at 12:07 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by Scott

Not bad, but I’ve been working on a similar project, and I found out a couple of things. For instance, it looks like it might be possible to get rid of the second circuit board that houses the “laser” for reading table-top movement. When you seperate the two boards, (they come apart quite easily thanks to several pins that fit into a nice plug) you can short two of the pins (i’ll look up which ones tonight and post again) and get a reaction from the top unit not unlike the one you see when the bottom board is in. Coincidence? Maybe. I still need to test it. But if it works, you could easily remove a good section of your project, AND cut down on battery drain.

Posted at 12:13 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by Scott

sorry about the double post :(

Posted at 12:21 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by Scott

http://www.zerosign.net.nyud.net:8090/index.php/powerglove-mouse/

Posted at 6:29 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by Brandon

in response to #4

a single rate gyro is an accelerometer. very often is a piezo crystal, the stresses on it produce differences in voltage.

a dual rate gyro, much less common is generally still an accelerometer but has electronics that can whip out some calculus to derive a drift plagued relative position.

Posted at 7:23 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by mark johnson

omfg! it brings back the days where you could plug it on your pc and control virtual stuff in rend386.

ahh at last a use for that glove thats been sitting on my screen. cool hack!

Posted at 9:39 pm on Feb 9th, 2006 by jeanphe

lol, almost makes me want to hook up that P5 glove i bought a while back..

Posted at 10:19 am on Feb 10th, 2006 by D3adKl0wn

Yeah, the P5 was pretty good. Too bad my machine can’t play any games :( That’s why I’m selling mine with a Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52. You can find it here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8764297646

Posted at 7:12 pm on Feb 10th, 2006 by expert01

Although this is a good hack, it is a shame that the functionality of the buttons along the forearm of the Power Glove is lost. Those buttons could come in handy as part of the glove’s control capabilities.

This brings to memory the “Nintendo Powerglove kernel driver for Linux” that I found in the “semi-permeable archives of sean whalen” at http://www.node99.org/projects/vr/ . This driver works reasonably well with my Power Glove, though it exhibits some jerkiness. I’m thinking of using the Power Glove for my robotics/telepresence experiments and may construct an interface to it with a PIC chip (sort of like a “Menelli Box”). This way the driver load is taken away from the PC and some basic data conditioning could be done to remove the jerkiness.

Posted at 4:48 pm on Feb 11th, 2006 by mac cody

Here’s a project in progress:

http://lathan.org/Gallery/MyProjects/index.html

Posted at 9:04 am on Feb 14th, 2006 by lowery