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Midterm 1st step and serial communication 2 week 6
We start working in our midterm idea we would like to create an interface for the computer. Our first idea it was to replace the keyboard in order to release the stress that we put in our wrist when we work in the computer. This piece was inspire by people who suffer of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Because we only have two weeks to complete this project we decide it to only imitate the mouse. Our final approach it was quite different that we thought. I will explain more soon.
The good news is that the serial communication lab that we have to do for this week was very helpfull to test all the sensors and understand visually the movement of the cursor using processing.
Bellow is step by step in our process. Ufff a lot hours of work 🙂
This is the photo documentation of the mat prototype:
This is all the 6 sensors working, 4 work as analogs and two digital. We look very happy
This is the documentation of the serial communication in processing
As I say before we took another different approach. We ore going to hack a mouse. The rotary tracks of the mouse inside are going to be connected to a dc motor and they will move them from one direction. We are going to have two of them. Bellow is Gordie working on it and the best part is working
Bellow is the call an response hand shake method, Gordie and Emily are the stars of this video