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Somewhere in the last couple of days I realized that soldering is more than just making tiny little terrifying Terminators and that motors and sensors and stuff are, like, easy to put together. (I say this now because I haven't shocked myself or fried any circuits yet but I reserve the right to future correction.)
Last semester, we were introduced to Arduino (a basic microcontroller) but I hadn't done anything beyond the tutorials until this week. I think that's in part because I've been wrestling with other technological demons (hi, Processing!) and also because I required some level of proficiency with those demons (uh, Processing) before I felt confident enough to try something else.
But... it's really easy! My fingers hurt and soldering is endlessly boring and unergonomic but making a little glove with vibration motors at the fingertips was surprisingly simple (to my non-engineering brain). It is, admittedly, terribly janky. I have probably wired things in an awful way and I'm sure there's something bad about using cheap poly-cotton blend gloves from Walgreens (I'll let you know when I shock myself or burn the tips of my fingers). For now, though, fun!
This is one glove. Thanks to the brains of my classmates and lots of fiddling, the motors are controlled individually and I have a basic program that causes a finger to vibrate based on mouse position. That is a totally breeze to change to something else, though and that will happen once the second glove is done and I figure out exactly what these things will be demonstrating.
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