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So the second part of my vibrator glove (which I am told sounds somewhat scandalous) is a separate controller glove. It is wired with flex sensors (as opposed to vibration motors) and so when you bend one finger on the brown gloves, it turns on the vibrator motor of the matching finger in the teal glove.
Ideally, two people far away from each other in distance, could communicate physical awareness through the flex sensor and receive that awareness through the vibration glove (so each person would have one of each). I've also got other ideas for it, though. Or larger ideas. I have a handful of trashed guitars that I'd like to "play" for people with the gloves. Because the flex sensor glove is on the left hand, I could, theoretically anyway, press chords on the fretboard and then have that transfer directly to the strumming of the strings via the vibration motors. That isn't one to one (bar chords for example) so I was thinking it might be fun to make or procure a simpler stringed instrument where one person dictates the strings to be "strummed" and the other person is a passive strummer.
I also hooked up the vibration motor glove to a couple of quick Processing sketches that assigned different combinations of vibration to different letters such that typing words into the program vibrated different patterns on the glove. I did the same thing with music but the patterns are determined by a FFT of the sound waves (something that comes with the Sonia library, my math fu is like a bird that can multiply, it's all instinctual).
So! Putting that together was pretty easy. I'm going to probably post photos of the circuits themselves (since I am likely to forget how to hook them up) and the Processing code (which is super janky) for getting the gloves to talk to each other. I didn't do it in the Arduino IDE because it doesn't run on my computer. I am a fearless (shameless?) installer of software so I'm assuming there's some conflict somewhere but I haven't isolated the issue yet.
Relatedly (that's not a word!) I ordered some light sensors, another nano and some other random stuff from Sparkfun last week and I signed up for the Design, Music and Technology class as my elective next semester. Perhaps we'll see a resurrection of Pinky Le Fur, the furry pressure sensitive keyboard sampler/visualizer or something.
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