Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition

Step 19: Write Some Games to Use Your New and Improved Power Glove!

That's it! You now have a Power Glove that sends accelerometer orientation, bend values for 4 fingers, and a bitmask for pressed buttons via Bluetooth. Since you have a serial port set up, you can read these in with any language that has serial access. Remember that to start receiving data, you have to send the string A first.

For making games, I'd seriously recommend Unity3D. If it weren't for this one tool and how slick and easy it makes the process, I wouldn't be making games professionally or as a hobby right now.

In the downloads I linked in the intro, I've included a Java program that reads the serial data and spits it out as a text file. This way, if you tech doesn't support serial I/O but can read a text file, you can do that instead.

I've also included two sample Unity3D scripts (written in Unity Javascript, an ActionScript-alike) that are the input manager I use for the Power Glove. They show a simple way to use the raw data to get more human-usable information.

Next step: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari with the Power Glove?

Comments

[roychook]

is there any code example for the arduino and how do u get angle information from the accelerometers

[TheTrustedOne]

Anyone interested in game development but want more power then Unity3D provides, should also check out GarageGames.com, The license fee for there engine under independant devloper flag is only a couple houndred bucks, you get the source code and with a little work it rivals the unreal engine, plus the support forums are absolutly amazing!

[How2BRandy]

Never trust someone who has to have their id called, "TheTrustedOne."