give-me-a-hand

Give me a hand aims to be not just a glove, but a complete body system that will interact with the computer of the suit, the computer on the space station, a land rover, or even an exoskeleton.

With the glove as our first step and prototype we use an Arduino UNO R3, an accelerometer and some conductive fabric.

We acquire the hand movement using the accelerometer, then processed it in the Arduino and then send it to an app we build using Processing language via bluetooth.

Using only this we were able to create three tools as an example of the idea: The first one was entering mission objectives, the second one was to manipulate objects and the third one was to observe the status of the suit and send data to the space station or Houston.

We can extend or replace the accelerometer using flex's sensors we can add EMG sensors, temperature sensors, proximity, mapping capacitive interactions to keep the circuitry as less bulky as possible.

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