PROJECT: Development of a Glove based joystick.

Hello after a very long time. There is no particular reason I am late, but mostly laziness… usual.

Anyway, the project idea I had posted earlier is finished. Its a college project so bear with the technicality. Its a joystick in a glove form, has no base to keep it on a table, and you wear it, its a glove. Its official title is: “Design and Development of a Glove Based Joystick Input Device”. Actually, this version I made can only control 2 servo motors and is not for a PC. Future designs will be able to connect to your USB.

Here are a few images:

The Device:

The joysticks are a single pair of Analog controllers salvaged from the Playstation2. The microcontroller is Basic Stamp 2 from Parallax. This is the first version of a glove based device. The goal was to make this a Joystick that can be connected to a computer, however this model does not, its just a demo of the hardware and connects to 2 servomotors to show the flexibility of the joystick and the ADC. The remaining details can be found in the project report.

Future Ideas:

1. I can either take a commercial USB joystick and strip it, connect the inputs to my device and have a fully functional glove based joystick.

2. The more difficult method is to program a PIC32 with USB capabilities. USB- HID (Human Interface Device) protocol can be used.

Here is a ppt describing the protect:
For a full report and construction details email me: varun@crazyengineers.com

7 Comments so far

  1. Ash on April 16th, 2008

    Awesome! I’m about to purchase a Joystick.. maybe I can get your Glove Joystick instead? =P

  2. vijay on June 19th, 2008

    please tell me any website having projects explanation ( like yours )and list of projects for computer science engineering students

  3. vijay on June 19th, 2008

    please tell me any website having projects explanation ( like yours )and list of projects for computer science engineering students

    my mail id is vijayaugustin@gmail.com

  4. Varun on June 28th, 2008

    Hey Vijay. Goto http://www.crazyengineers.com for some information or on the right side you can see some google ads. They sometimes come up with good links. :)

  5. bhavesh thakkar on August 1st, 2008

    hi varun. yr project is so good. i want to take it as my final year project…. i m studying in the final year of B.E.(INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL ENGINEERING) IN G.E.C. RAJKOT, GUJARAT. So, i want components list of the yr project : “Design and Development of a Glove Based Joystick Input Device”. so plesae send me……

    my EMAIL ID: bhavesh_thakkar88@yahoo.co.in

  6. mahendra on August 3rd, 2008

    hi,i m mahendra.
    yr project is so good. i want to take it as my final year project…. i m studying in the final year of B.E.(INSTRUMENTATION) from VESIT, mumbai. So, i want components list of ur project : “Design and Development of a Glove Based Joystick Input Device”. so plesae send me……

    my EMAIL ID:mayu_prabhu2005@yahoo.co.in

  7. zwanderer on August 28th, 2008

    amazing work dude, i am impressed to imagine what all spheres this thing might get applied to :-) I am into HCI Multitouch tech though. :)

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