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The crew over at Teague Labs get huge props for bringing back one of the worst things that Nintendo ever did by making it look like it actually works this time, with the HTC Vive! This is not some rudimentary software hack either, the Teague guys took their time and outfitted the Nintendo Power Glove with Vive motion tracker and custom-etched board which actually stay true to the original Power Glove design. While finger tracking is not perfect in the Vive software yet, these guys have it working fair well by judging from the animated gifs on their site. Hopefully they will get some full motion videos uploaded soon. They are sharing their code as well. Thanks cageymaru.
We took a Power Glove apart, 3D scanned the interfacing plastic parts and built modified parts that hold the Vive Tracker and an Arduino Due on the glove. After some prototyping on a breadboard, we designed a shield for the Due and etched it using the laser-cutter transfer technique. We then soldered all components and spray-painted the whole shield to protect the bare copper. After mounting the tracker and tweaking the code by matzmann666, we had the glove work. If you are more curious or want to reproduce this, we uploaded all of our files on GitHub.
We took a Power Glove apart, 3D scanned the interfacing plastic parts and built modified parts that hold the Vive Tracker and an Arduino Due on the glove. After some prototyping on a breadboard, we designed a shield for the Due and etched it using the laser-cutter transfer technique. We then soldered all components and spray-painted the whole shield to protect the bare copper. After mounting the tracker and tweaking the code by matzmann666, we had the glove work. If you are more curious or want to reproduce this, we uploaded all of our files on GitHub.