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Glove 4-Mouse movement code

A project log for Wearable Computer Rig & Powerglove Mouse

Inspired by Martin Magnusson's wearable computer, I've refined the display, and modified a Nintendo Powerglove to be the complete interface!

scott-sScott S 05/17/2015 at 03:020 Comments

Now that we have mouse clicks being picked up by the computer, its time to get the mouse to actually move around the screen. In order to do this, I referred to the joystick mouse tutorial below, and modified the code as necessary.

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/JoystickMouseControl

https://github.com/slicer364/powerglove-mouse/blob/master/powerglove_joystickmouse

Now, as I wanted the mouse to be low profile, and easily retractable, I settled on the PSP-1000 joystick- the joystick from the first generation PSP game system. https://www.adafruit.com/products/444

The "joystickmousecontrol" tutorial code applied cleanly to the psp joystick.

For some reason, I found issues if I let the mouse calibrate itself indefinitely. It might have been an issue with a short somewhere, but if I had let it calibrate too long, the mouse would eventually be pulled to the top left of the screen. In any case, stopping calibration after 5 seconds solved that issue. Calibration is listed in the tutorial's code as "borderdetect".

if (millis() > 5000){ 
/* after 5 seconds, do not allow any more border detection   (mouse calibration)
*/
borderdetect=false;
}

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Let's add a way to hold the joystick to the glove.

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