Comments on: Haptic feedback roundup

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:04:17 +0000

This has been one of the best weeks ever at hackaday. First mech- power suits, then haptic and cnc.

Keep up the good work guys!

By: Mac Cody

Mac Cody — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:14:14 +0000

You show a photo of a modified Mattel Nintendo Power Glove but you provided no information on it. I Googled on "powerglove haptic" and found the NewGlove project at http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/Newglove.htm (including the photo you used above). It looks interesting, but I miss the Nintendo controller on the forearm. It was removed as part of the hack.
I have a Power Glove stored in one of my "treasure boxes", waiting for the day I'll hack it. About five years ago, I interfaced the Power Glove to the parallel port on a latop running linux. I used the old pglinux driver that is probably still out on the net somewhere. I even wrote a Tcl/Tk (Tool Command Language) script to talk to the driver and graphically display the finger flexes and hand movements. Ah, memories! Cool interface, but tiring for the arm and shoulder!

By: Solenoidclock

Solenoidclock — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:26:08 +0000

I wonder if you could use that novint falcon with a 3d modeling program. It’d could be just like using a tool to sculpt clay.

On that note, how awesome would Trauma Center be on this thing? imagine feeling the scalpel slide through different types of flesh, smooth bone guiding the flat of your blade..

By: adam

adam — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:06:31 +0000

Cool… just wanted to say that the site has really been moving lately and that you all are doing a really good job with very cool articles lately, keep up the good work!