The Supercon really loved the data glove - enough to convince me to put it online.

The project looks pretty good, but inside, it's pandemonium. Below the clean-looking case (I'm pretty proud of that, it came out great) the Somatic prototype is a mess of perfboard and sloppily-soldered dev boards. The code does basically nothing, and the training utility does even less.

But, the hardware works, and I have my tasks ahead of me. From easy to hard:

• I have code to recognize hands signs, output keystrokes, and do the gyro mouse stuff from a previous data glove. Gotta port that over to this hardware.
• Finish the training utility. This will be fed into TensorFlow to recognize gestures. I've never actually built a desktop GUI app, but the learning curve of Tkinter is pretty forgiving.
• Gather and process training data. I estimate I'll need something like 100 samples of each of the about 100 glyphs. I'll need some serious podcasts (and wrist support) to draw ten thousand letters in the air. Preprocessing should be pretty simple - the IMU itself produces unit quaternions; my job will be to normalize the sequences so they're the same length.
• Make the artificial neural network. I've never done anything close to this before, but it seems pretty straightforward. The priority is making a network that can be easily ported to the Teensy. I'm not going to train directly on the glove - it'll just run the model.
• Build custom PCB's and all that jazz to make it smaller and perform better. Normally I'd call this easy, but the Teensy 4.0's new chip is BGA and looks like a nightmare to solder with hot air.

Anyways, stay tuned, I think I'm pretty close to finishing the training utility... as soon as I can figure out how to render the quaternions and gesture path...