Remember Nintendo NES’s Power Glove? You’re lucky if you don’t. It wasn’t that great, it only supported two games and wasn’t very accurate, not to mention it was nearly impossible to control. Now in 2010 we have a new glove. A better glove. Enter Keyglove. Designed by Jeff Rowberg, a guy who likes programming a lot, the glove incorporates the use of a keyboard and mouse all in one unit freeing up your other hand to do…uh…other things. The Arduino powered glove uses multi-touch sensor combinations for the keyboard and an accelerometer for use as the mouse. 34 contact sensors and a smart controller give the user access to the entire English alphabet. The hardware that makes up the glove is really quite simple and easy to acquire if you decide to make your own. Jeff made his by using a handbell glove (or marching band glove), then used some stretch conductive fabric for the glove sensors. He then used an Arduino Mega microcontroller board (1280 version) and an ADXL345BCCZ.ADXL345BCCZ. accelerometer which uses a digital (I2C) interface for mouse control. On the software side Rowberg used were AVR-GCC, which is basically C++ with hardware specific libraries, and the Keyglove Programmer, that is a user friendly customization app for the settings and keyset of the glove. You can also buy the glove at $100, very handy if you’re not proficient at soldering. However for the complete building specs and material visit: http://www.keyglove.net/build/
Just remember the Keyglove is still only a prototype.
Eavesdropper