Mechanically simplistic, sleek, ergonomic, fairly sexy, and actually useful tech gear. Hat's off to you maker pro on this super project. Thanks for sharing it and for the massive amount of time you spent on it as well.
I was thinking something similar - get the glove to decode asl fingerspelling, already universal. Though you might have to put a sensor on the thumb too?
@@ErichWidemark Unfortunately this would not work. As he stated, he is not representing his hand in the 3d space. This could interpret some signs but even with just the alphabet, the letter R requires the crossing of two fingers, which this could not detect. Remember it only detects whether or not the finger is extended. Please correct me if any of this info is inaccurate. I may have completely misunderstood the video. I am not an engineer, just a CompSci Major who wishes he was. :p
@@mrtheblackarrow switching to analog sensors and doing recognition per fingerspelled word instead of letter might solve the problem. 1) for a letters like R MNTA&S some fingers have slightly more bend than others. Hopefully the analog sensors would pick that up. 2) because not all letters can follow all letters in English, a certain amount of disambiguation would occur when recognizing at the word level.
@@ThadStarner I agree completely. It is definitely possible to build a device that would allow you to do ASL with some level of accuracy, however the device shown in the video is not capable of it without a serious rework.
@@mrtheblackarrow I suspect using analog hall effect might be sufficient for fingerspelled words with a limited vocabulary.. I might have a student try it for a class project; we have some good resources for it. Just search on my name and GT2k at scholar.google.com or "Towards a one-way American sign language translator' if you're interested in this space.
2:53 is when I realized I'm joining the notification crew! I just came across your channel this morning and have been hooked. I've binge watched every video of yours besides the ones over an hour long. Haven't laughed this hard or been so happy to find a new channel in quite some time. Thank you for your content my new friend!
I just wanna say, you sir, are an inspirational force! I'm still in high school, but I've always wanted to make wearable tech, and your videos keep making me want to go out and research how to build something like your HUD or glove on a low budget! Keep it up, man. You're awesome.
Zack, you've got to try expanding human sensory abilities! Ideas may include pairing vibrating motors (or modern taptic modules) with infrared sensors (to expand eyesight), microphones (to hear danger even in headphones, or for deaf people), distance sensors (to feel when someone/something is behind your back), EM field sensors, you name it. You can make a whole range of actually useful wearables.
Truly revolutionary! First time I’ve seen something this elegant. Been waiting for something like this in vr to allow nursing students and Med students to do skills in augmented reality with hand movement.
I'm impressed by how good it looks, something between a motorcycle glove and a lifting glove. The flexibility of the connection is amazing as well! Enabling it to connect to any device as if it were a wireless keyboard is dope!
It just feels awesome to see someone do projects normal people usually dream/dreamt of doing and not to mention that Zack is achieving these dreams with utter perfection! Way to go my dude. Hoping to see more awesome contents like these.
I'm shocked you don't have more views and subscribers, your projects are both intrinsically amazing and also presented in an extremely engaging and educational way. keep up the awesome work
I cannot believe dude, i am working on this project using the exact solution you are using for past 3-4 months. I came up the idea of using a hall effect sensors when i disassembled an Xbox controller and found out that they use hall effect sensors for the triggers. I am using the Memsic MMC5603NJ sensors.
Using the hall effect sensors instead of the flex pots was ace! You will also never need to replace a worn out sensor so +10 to durability. I need an RNN for chord and note permutation, and you gave me that last bit of data I was missing. Awesome project!
I once did a chording keyboard in a glove using contacts made of conductive thread. I combined this with the bed-sensors from a Powerglove. That was pre-2000. Modern materials make all this a lot more tenable.
I was trying to find a way to build this type of glove for AR typewriting, and you just give me the way to do it 🤩 thank you so much! now it is time to learn some electronics
I did this simular thing in 2010 with an old power glove and a gyro. Worked our really well. Had a keyboard on the forearm as well. Never thought about using HE sensors though! Pretty awesome and very useful design you have here! Well done, very well done.
A point on ergonomics (and why they mean that this design is very good). It's tempting to want to put extra sensors at different joints -- after all, a human can hold the big knuckle straight and bend a minor joint (or vice versa). However, there are only two main muscles controlling the bending and straightening or a finger, so holding one joint straight while bending the next meaning holding a lot of tension in the two muscles simultaneously. It isn't harmful when you do it occasionally, for things like shadow puppetry, but we don't do it for any of our frequent actions. A data glove with independent sensors at two knuckles on the same finger would be likely to result in UI gestures being developed that take advantage of these less ergonomic motions for relatively common functions, resulting in a repetitive abuse injury. This design measures the most important variables, and removes the possibility of either the software designer or the user to use a lot of potentially harmful gestures.
Electronics always look more impressive than they really are. It's amazing what you can with a cheap microcontroller, a handful of sensors, and a few grams of 3D-printed plastic.
Honestly, that hall effect sensor usage is pretty damn genius. I doubt adding more sensors for the rest of the finger would impede movement too much, either - certainly I can't see it impeding movement like a flex sensor would.
Holy shit, this is one of the most interesting projects I've seen! I'm fairly new to microcontrollers and this type of diy stuff, but I might start learning neural networks earlier than planned because of it lol
You are awesome! I'm glad TH-cam imposed me to watch one of your videos lol Your humor is as good as the information you present,,, now I feel I need to finish one of my projects
Just found your page. Watched the "What's on my face!? video before this. Really good channel you got. Subscribed and am gonna be clicking watch on all your new videos! Thanks.
I would love to see this expanded into something for sign language. Not just so it's more accessible/something to get people interested in learning about the deaf communities out there, but because you could easily change it to recognize arbitrary inputs/gestures that may share the same movements as some signs as their own macros! Then you could literally be Keanu Reeves from Johnny Mnemonic!
I feel like sign language would be the perfect input language for a wearable using tech like this. It would require tracking on all joints and thumb, but it would be much more subtle and learning ASL is a great skill
Thank you so much! Plenty of people are nutcases, but we've never had more information, better tools, or more powerful parts. It's still the best time in history to make stuff.
Awesome!!!!!! I just want to finish my nursing board and submerge in all this, I have tons of ideas but lots to learn hopefully "never too late to learn" still works jejejejejejeje Your vids are awesome pretty sure your channel will keep growing!
I wasn't too convinced on subscribing in some other video or 2 I saw but I subscribed anyway. This definitely got my subscription tho. cool af. simple and not clunky like other kinds of gloves
You know, you could adapt this so that a mute person can comunicate with anyone with sign lenguaje. Most people do not speak sign lenguaje and it changes depending on the country. So someone who can only comunicate this way could REALLY benefit from a product like this. You would have to train the AI to learn sign lenguaje and add a speaker somewere so that others can hear what they are trying to say. I hope you or someone makes this a real life product because it would help a lot of people.
hey Zach, I'm from Belgium and I discovered your channel yesterday, I actually love your sense of humour however in french we say " le plat de résistance" (6:38). hope you'll read this message I can't wait to see other projects!
@@michaelzajac5284 no, lol, I am very quickly taping pre-drawn characters on a 3 in wide pad with my thumbs, having to make large accurate wrist movements to air draw every letter in every word would be a complete pain in the ass.
Shut up and take my mon....oh, links to the project files. Sweet. That'll do.
Shut up, like and subscribe =)
Hahahahaha this is great!
Anyone feel like making me one?
@@vystorm yess have you started already?
Did you do it
Mechanically simplistic, sleek, ergonomic, fairly sexy, and actually useful tech gear. Hat's off to you maker pro on this super project. Thanks for sharing it and for the massive amount of time you spent on it as well.
"Now you're playing with POWER!"
It's so bad
@@ZackFreedman no it isnt
This is why I came here.
actually impressive and the aesthetics are off the charts
though I would have gone all black
This is cool as hell!
Would be interesting to setup two of these to decode sign language into a TTS system.
I was thinking something similar - get the glove to decode asl fingerspelling, already universal. Though you might have to put a sensor on the thumb too?
@@ErichWidemark Unfortunately this would not work. As he stated, he is not representing his hand in the 3d space. This could interpret some signs but even with just the alphabet, the letter R requires the crossing of two fingers, which this could not detect. Remember it only detects whether or not the finger is extended. Please correct me if any of this info is inaccurate. I may have completely misunderstood the video. I am not an engineer, just a CompSci Major who wishes he was. :p
@@mrtheblackarrow switching to analog sensors and doing recognition per fingerspelled word instead of letter might solve the problem. 1) for a letters like R MNTA&S some fingers have slightly more bend than others. Hopefully the analog sensors would pick that up. 2) because not all letters can follow all letters in English, a certain amount of disambiguation would occur when recognizing at the word level.
@@ThadStarner I agree completely. It is definitely possible to build a device that would allow you to do ASL with some level of accuracy, however the device shown in the video is not capable of it without a serious rework.
@@mrtheblackarrow I suspect using analog hall effect might be sufficient for fingerspelled words with a limited vocabulary.. I might have a student try it for a class project; we have some good resources for it. Just search on my name and GT2k at scholar.google.com or "Towards a one-way American sign language translator' if you're interested in this space.
"this is my second favorite hand" X'D lol
the third is his least favorite coz of the place it is in
2:53 is when I realized I'm joining the notification crew! I just came across your channel this morning and have been hooked. I've binge watched every video of yours besides the ones over an hour long. Haven't laughed this hard or been so happy to find a new channel in quite some time. Thank you for your content my new friend!
I just wanna say, you sir, are an inspirational force! I'm still in high school, but I've always wanted to make wearable tech, and your videos keep making me want to go out and research how to build something like your HUD or glove on a low budget! Keep it up, man. You're awesome.
Zack, you've got to try expanding human sensory abilities! Ideas may include pairing vibrating motors (or modern taptic modules) with infrared sensors (to expand eyesight), microphones (to hear danger even in headphones, or for deaf people), distance sensors (to feel when someone/something is behind your back), EM field sensors, you name it. You can make a whole range of actually useful wearables.
I'd love to see more about that head mounted computer
You're gonna love tomorrow's video.
Maaaan im happy that TH-cam suggested your channel ! Love your creativity, editing and the detail of information you transport with your videos!
Truly revolutionary! First time I’ve seen something this elegant. Been waiting for something like this in vr to allow nursing students and Med students to do skills in augmented reality with hand movement.
This was my introduction to your channel, and to this day still my favorite video of yours
This is not just engineering, but actually so artisful. I am so inspired by this
Thank you for not being greedy and sharing these to us. We are humbled
I'm impressed by how good it looks, something between a motorcycle glove and a lifting glove. The flexibility of the connection is amazing as well! Enabling it to connect to any device as if it were a wireless keyboard is dope!
I’m currently a 2nd year computer engineering student.
I appreciate you sharing your work with the Internet. Thank you. 🙂
It just feels awesome to see someone do projects normal people usually dream/dreamt of doing and not to mention that Zack is achieving these dreams with utter perfection! Way to go my dude. Hoping to see more awesome contents like these.
I'm shocked you don't have more views and subscribers, your projects are both intrinsically amazing and also presented in an extremely engaging and educational way.
keep up the awesome work
This is bad ass. There's a company called "Emotive" that makes a fairly good EEG that might be worth looking in to for more cyberpunk UI input.
I cannot believe dude, i am working on this project using the exact solution you are using for past 3-4 months. I came up the idea of using a hall effect sensors when i disassembled an Xbox controller and found out that they use hall effect sensors for the triggers. I am using the Memsic MMC5603NJ sensors.
Cool, looks good, is actually functional and useful. Probably one of the best gadgets on your channel, though I have quite a few more videos to watch.
Holy crap, this whole project is amazing... I don't think I could walk around in public with the setup.... but I like the idea of a HUD greatly
What a cool project. You obviously have ten thousands projects under your belt
Using the hall effect sensors instead of the flex pots was ace! You will also never need to replace a worn out sensor so +10 to durability. I need an RNN for chord and note permutation, and you gave me that last bit of data I was missing. Awesome project!
I once did a chording keyboard in a glove using contacts made of conductive thread. I combined this with the bed-sensors from a Powerglove. That was pre-2000. Modern materials make all this a lot more tenable.
Man this is amazing. I loved it, I am definitely going to replicate it. This will teach me a lot
Thanks a lot! This isn't the easiest project to replicate, but all the documentation, code, and models are ready for you!
"It's cyber-punk as f*ck!" I'm hooked, buddy. Good to meet you lol
I was trying to find a way to build this type of glove for AR typewriting, and you just give me the way to do it 🤩 thank you so much! now it is time to learn some electronics
Your production quality has definitely upgraded from then to now. Nice work.
It's been a while since I've been this blown away. Hats off to you!
I did this simular thing in 2010 with an old power glove and a gyro. Worked our really well. Had a keyboard on the forearm as well. Never thought about using HE sensors though! Pretty awesome and very useful design you have here! Well done, very well done.
Seriously this is GENIUS! I want one. The question is will you make me one for less than I value my time to do it myself? Name your price, sir.
A point on ergonomics (and why they mean that this design is very good).
It's tempting to want to put extra sensors at different joints -- after all, a human can hold the big knuckle straight and bend a minor joint (or vice versa).
However, there are only two main muscles controlling the bending and straightening or a finger, so holding one joint straight while bending the next meaning holding a lot of tension in the two muscles simultaneously. It isn't harmful when you do it occasionally, for things like shadow puppetry, but we don't do it for any of our frequent actions.
A data glove with independent sensors at two knuckles on the same finger would be likely to result in UI gestures being developed that take advantage of these less ergonomic motions for relatively common functions, resulting in a repetitive abuse injury.
This design measures the most important variables, and removes the possibility of either the software designer or the user to use a lot of potentially harmful gestures.
You are seriously my favorite TH-camr. Thanks for helping me level up on my tech journey!! Happy New Year!!
That's a powerglove, but for real! It's also very elegantly designed and it actually works.
That's cooler than what I expected.
By far the best glove I've seen... Awesome 😎.
I always wonder how people got time and money to do amazing stuff like this. Cool project, looking into replicating it as well.
Electronics always look more impressive than they really are. It's amazing what you can with a cheap microcontroller, a handful of sensors, and a few grams of 3D-printed plastic.
Absolutely awesome, Zack Freedman needs to go viral
I love you. This is amazing. I don't think I'd use this instead of a twiddler, but it's amazing anyway.
This is so incredibly cool. Thank you so much. The hall sensor idea is just genius.
I would wear this everywhere. Looks amazing.
This could have so many more applications as a practical use gesture interface.
Damn good work and clever use of magnets!
This is a lot better that any commercial alternative.
I love this video, man. Love the work you're doing!
Honestly, that hall effect sensor usage is pretty damn genius. I doubt adding more sensors for the rest of the finger would impede movement too much, either - certainly I can't see it impeding movement like a flex sensor would.
Dude, I'm not even a tech nerd and that is freaking cool!!
Subbed, first time I have seen a diy hud and interface that looks like a practical tool and not a gimmick or toy
Zack, you are by far the coolest guy! Love the stuff you do on your channel!
Holy shit, this is one of the most interesting projects I've seen! I'm fairly new to microcontrollers and this type of diy stuff, but I might start learning neural networks earlier than planned because of it lol
Wow man, today I discovered your channel and it's awesome! Already watched half of your videos xD keep up the great job !!! Cheers from Chile !!!!
Great work .
Looks nice and more practical than most of other designs
Dude is litteraly a real life cyborg! Holy crap some cool projects!!
You are awesome! I'm glad TH-cam imposed me to watch one of your videos lol Your humor is as good as the information you present,,, now I feel I need to finish one of my projects
WE'RE NOT WORTHY! Absolutely amazing!
Absolutely amazing.
"Look at me I am the keyboard now" - Tech Pirate
Just found your page. Watched the "What's on my face!? video before this. Really good channel you got. Subscribed and am gonna be clicking watch on all your new videos! Thanks.
Love it! Thank you for sharing!
I would love to see this expanded into something for sign language. Not just so it's more accessible/something to get people interested in learning about the deaf communities out there, but because you could easily change it to recognize arbitrary inputs/gestures that may share the same movements as some signs as their own macros! Then you could literally be Keanu Reeves from Johnny Mnemonic!
I feel like sign language would be the perfect input language for a wearable using tech like this. It would require tracking on all joints and thumb, but it would be much more subtle and learning ASL is a great skill
I see potential for a motorcycle glove (controlling satnav and stuff)
The hall sensor idea is awesome
this is insanely cool
Honestly one of the nicest wearables I've seen a vid of holy damn
Sick project, thanks for sharing!
You can add little button's on fingers for user defined macros. Place them in such a way that you can turn them on with your thumb.
Wait a minute...
It's been two years and I just realized you were an Enlightened agent...
Darn frogs...
why dont you have more viewers. Your freaking awesome
Thank you so much! Plenty of people are nutcases, but we've never had more information, better tools, or more powerful parts. It's still the best time in history to make stuff.
The tech is awesome no doubt, but the personality and genuine enthusiasm really make it fun to watch.
Awesome!!!!!! I just want to finish my nursing board and submerge in all this, I have tons of ideas but lots to learn hopefully "never too late to learn" still works jejejejejejeje
Your vids are awesome pretty sure your channel will keep growing!
I watched this five times, it's soo good.
I wasn't too convinced on subscribing in some other video or 2 I saw but I subscribed anyway. This definitely got my subscription tho. cool af. simple and not clunky like other kinds of gloves
YES YES YES. OIculus quest does track hand movement
this is INSANELY cool!! Thank you for introducing me to this whole crazy world!! :)
I wonder if you could make a pair of gloves that can type using ASL gestures -- super cool!
the hell, that design would be perfect for vr tracking. Most vr hand trackers are cumbersom compared to that
This was incredible! Thank you for sharing!
breathtaking
Here from the future. Now I know why the cyborg look. Great project, well executed. You should be an inspiration to a lot of youngsters.
This channel is awesome!
You know, you could adapt this so that a mute person can comunicate with anyone with sign lenguaje. Most people do not speak sign lenguaje and it changes depending on the country. So someone who can only comunicate this way could REALLY benefit from a product like this.
You would have to train the AI to learn sign lenguaje and add a speaker somewere so that others can hear what they are trying to say. I hope you or someone makes this a real life product because it would help a lot of people.
we will hear a lot about this man in 20 or so years
this is SICK
hey Zach, I'm from Belgium and I discovered your channel yesterday, I actually love your sense of humour however in french we say " le plat de résistance" (6:38). hope you'll read this message I can't wait to see other projects!
This is amazing!
I'm totally interested in learning about this more!
You could try get it to recognise swipe typing , and show a keyboard overlay on the HUD and use it to type words much quicker
Wow, this project is insane - nice job man, might have to build my own Somatic too.
Quality stuff right there.
Zack! 2024 is getting really close! Have you made that in-depth video you promised here? 😅
I'm deaf. I'm glad you learned your new technology glove. Use my ASL.
That's brilliant! I'd imagine signing would be far faster than drawing out every letter, we just need to train the model with all the signs haha
@@xxportalxx.
Zack, you see that! That's surprising to words!
@@michaelzajac5284 surprising how?
@@xxportalxx.
You have an idea. You saying that drawing out ever letter on the computer.
@@michaelzajac5284 no, lol, I am very quickly taping pre-drawn characters on a 3 in wide pad with my thumbs, having to make large accurate wrist movements to air draw every letter in every word would be a complete pain in the ass.
Now this is fucking cool . Plz further develop this so one day we can all enjoy it.
this is legit so cool
simply amazing...
That glove is really cool.
I want your wearable set up! lol It's so cool.
You're a genius and I want to replicate this so badly.
This is awesome.
Why the hell this stuff aint more commonplace? This is so cool!
I was drooling the whole time, with my jaw hanging wide open