Post 1, Week 8 (July 13 – July 19)
Wednesday, 7/15/09
PROGRESS
Here are the pictures that I have promised. The first two are of the circuit board with the new additions. You will see more wires for the sensors, wires for the accelerometer, sockets for the wires coming from the LCD screen and TTS (text-to-speech) module, and a potentiometer in order to control the contrast of the LCD display. The potentiometer is the small blue rectangle on the bottom right of the board.
The next picture is of the sleeve that will hold the touch sensor that goes on the thumbnail in order to help recognize the letter ‘E’. The next sleeve picture is one for the sensor on the other side of the thumb for the letter ‘O’. The third picture is for the sleeve that sits on the left side of the middle finger. The touch sensor that goes here will be used to determine if the gesture being signed is ‘U’ or ‘V’.
If you want a little challenge, go to my AMA Glove Reference Material Page, and by looking at the chart, see if you can reason why the sensor locations that I mentioned in the previous paragraph would help to differentiate these gestures from others.
The last two pictures show a little cover that I made for purely cosmetic reasons. I just wanted to have something to keep the sensors from being in plain sight and to maybe protect them from the elements of nature. The first one shows the actual size of the cover, but after it is bent around the glove, it would look like the last picture.
PICTURES
