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In article <1hubibINN702@shelley.u.washington.edu> (Diego Montefusco) writes:
>Hi all!
>I've worked with a DataGlove for some time now (a base model: 10
>sensors), and I'd like to know if anyone else who has worked with it
>has come up with a good solution of a problem I found.
        [. . . .]
>The problem I found is the THUMB: since the DataGlove can't detect all
>movements of the first joint of the thumb (i.e. the one which links
>the finger and the hand), without additional sensors, I was wondering
>around WHICH axis the thumb should twist about: it surely isn't one of
>the coordinate ones (X,Y,Z), and I've come out with a strange one,

>Diego

        Hey, Folks!  Just made me think of something that I thought of one day
while playing with my hands.  I had a computer interfacing class, and I was
thinking of making a pseudo-DataGlove.  The kludge is this - for each finger
(not the thumb...), you need only two curvature sensors, not three.  Mount
them on the first and second knuckles (the knuckles between the hand and
finger and the first bendy on the finger).  The bend of the last knuckle is
approximately the bend on the second - play with it and see...

        Ok, just thought someone would find that as interesting as I did...

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