My program simply takes the sample code and modifies it in order to control a representation of the glove on the screen. When the gloved hand is open, the hand on the program is open. When the ring finger on the gloved hand is closed, the middle two fingers in the representation appear closed, and the hand moves around the screen, bouncing off the walls.
I had a little difficulty getting the arduino to communicate with the processing program, so I was only able to reach a basic experimentation level with the device once it was working.
I put a lot of thought into where I’d like to go with this project. To make it engaging, I’d like to make it a game and think about how it feels to control the game through gloves. This week I’d like to rebuild to glove to detect whether the four index fingers are making contact with the thumb. Then, on the screen, the hand would be a different color corresponding to 4 powers determined by which finger last touched the thumb. A second glove would control whether it fires a bullet, open, or charges the bullet, closed. The bullet would be a different color corresponding to the power-up currently on the glove.