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Date Created: 26 May 2016 8:29 PM Date Created
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Episode 239: Ben Heck's Power Glove Teardown Episode

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In this episode Ben tears down the Power Glove and reverse engineers it into a computer mouse!

See more related bonus content video for the previous episode 238 on logic puzzles for the Hackmanji board game.

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beacon_dave over 5 years ago

Could you perhaps enhance the usability of the Power Glove by fitting it with a MEMS gyro and an accelerometer for improved positioning whilst keeping the keypad, finger sensors etc. ?

Sparkfun appear to have both mounted on one PCB ready to be connected to an I2C bus host.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10121

I remember a while back using an 'air mouse' by Gyration and it was surprisingly accurate once you got over the initial weirdness. A glove may have worked better though as no need to hold the mouse all the time.
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DAB over 5 years ago

Great episode.

I like the idea of using logic gates as the puzzle.
You could also do state machine puzzles using similar hardware.

DAB
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Blacksheep32 over 5 years ago

Please make future episode robot punch with Power Glove!!!!
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