legacy@ieighty.net wrote: > > In article <358E4F97.BAF7D10D@troi.cc.rochester.edu>, > rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu wrote: > > > Isn't this just a joystick style input? i.e. it only encodes a small > > number of inputs; up, down, left, right, etc.? I've seen the gloves but > > I've never used one, or looked at it too closely; how does it sense the > > hand position? > > I dunno. I've never had any first hand experience with a powerglove. All I > know it that there are many companies that sell encoder boxes to convert the > signal to standard rs-232 serial. Cool. I'll have to look this up, I didn't realize people had ported this glove to pcs. > One more hand idea I'm in the middle of trying : A nifty Multi-glove-tester. > It involves putting each probe of the meter on the first and second fingers. > The really cool part it that the probe tips are retactable using the same > idea as a ball-point pen. When you push on them , they retract and lock > above the fingernails, and one more push, or pressing them against a tabletop > or something will extend them again. The 'on' switch is a pad on the 3rd > finger and the thumb. So, touch those two together, and touch the probes > where you want and you have a one-handed meter. The only problem is where to > mount the main display unit of the meter. Wouldn't the only logical place to put it be on the back of the hand? the only alternative position would be as part of a HMD. I know some people are working on integrating logic probes and multimeters into intel based wearable computers using some similar setup with hand mounted probes, but I haven't heard of any successful prototypes. You might want to check the wear-hard mailing list archive at: http://wearables.ml.org/. -Paul
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