Motion Control Smart Glove

A smart glove that can control computer interface. Powered by a Raspberry Pi 4, the glove recognizes human hand gestures to control laptop interface such as scrolling up/down, back to home or changing windows.

Components: Raspberry Pi 4, flex sensors, triple-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, MCP 3008, portable power bank, glove, wires

Design:

Hardware

Software

Prototypes:

Short Demos

Three Gestures

Tap finger to return to desktop, tap again to return to previous window

Swipe hand left/right to switch between virtual desktops

Flap hand up/down to scroll through pages, putting hand horizontally stops scrolling

Video Demo

Please check final_demo.mp4 here

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Co-developed with Yingtao Jiang (equal contribution)