Hi,
I've had this obsession for the past few years and I've never been able to see it come to fruition. But, I feel like it is possible now that I've found pd. I've been trying to get my old nintendo power glove to act as a music controller.
For those of you who skipped the 8-bit gaming years, the nintendo power glove was an early attempt at virtual reality game play on the original nintendo entertainment system. It's the grandfather of the modern nintendo wii. The glove came out in the mid-eighties (I think) and was this cool "modern" looking gauntlet that registered x, y, z, and rotation parameters with ultrasonics.
Somehow, I got the idea in my head that I could mod the glove to work with my computer to control music. At first I thought it would be a great midi controller: along with position and rotation, the glove registers finger movements and has a whole bunch of buttons. The synthesizer company Doepfer made a module that converted power glove into into midi, but I could never get my hands on one.
A few pop-vr books from the 90's tell how to mod the glove and get it running with virtual reality programs. They were some help.
What I want to do now it use it with pd. I've been hugely influenced by the reacTable, which is amazing if you haven't checked it out yet, and I think that pd can integrate well with the power glove. If anyone has any ideas of how to program it or knows of any work that has been done in this realm, I'd love to hear about it.
I've already set up the glove so that it communicates through the lpt parallel port on a computer and is powered by a usb cable. It worked on a windows 98 box, but I'm having trouble with my XP machine.
Thanks for your interest.
