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[maradydd]

i am typing this post with my prototype chording glove

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[askeladden.livejournal.com]

You blow my mind. Pictures?

[fanlain.livejournal.com]

awesome! how it is working out?

[patrickwonders.livejournal.com]

W0oT!!1!!!

[ivy]

Congratulations!

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

OOh! A decent one? I looked at chording keyboards a few years ago but none of them looked very ergonomic. I keep thinking about doing a chorded keyboard because of the way I work when I'm doing artwork.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

Go you! You are the new Geeked Out Michael Jackson!

[ephermata.livejournal.com]

Dropped off the myvus for you last night, too. Have fun!

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

How feasible would it be to make a two glove version, with 22 switches in total? (9 on the left hand, 13 on the right?)

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

meant to get back to you about the Theramin idea I had for a chording glove...sorry, life got busy.

Anyway, you know how one works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theramin) right?

So, it occured to me that if you had a loop antenna on the back of your hand, and used flexible wiring down the length of the fingers as the dipole antenna, with different harmonic frequencies for each finger, then as you curled your fingers to 'type' the EM field as measured by the pick up would change depending one which finger curled by how much...

Granted, the back-end circuit would be more complicated, as a 5 channel A-D converter would be needed to process the signal before it reached the control board...but you'd not only get information about which finger was pressed, but by how much [ie, how far it moved] and speed of movement over time data too. which wouldn't be important for typing, but would be very useful for context sensitive applications like painting, control applications, or providing the sensor half of a force-feedback loop.

Add in a 3-axis accelerometer and you've got a full-on position sensing VR interface.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Squee!

-- L

[vatine]

Don't know if you've seen the AcceleGlove? You probably have, though...