Aim Glove

Top View of Glove
Back View of Glove
ESP32 Wiring

Inspiration

We have seen several ideas in this same space over the last 20-30 years, yet none have had widespread success or useability. Arguably the closest was the Wii with similar functionality, but we strove to increase immersion with a wearable glove and physical actions that are mapped to button presses.

What it does

Through an ESP32 and the ESP32 BLE Mouse library, polls a MPU6050 IMU to continually determine position and movement direction. Then interfaces with any device over BLE for communication.

How we built it

We went through several iterations of the main code, with many different geometric ideas to aid in projection. We used several different sensors for button presses and went through several iterations with different devices.

Challenges we ran into

Wrote code for a second hand as a keyboard for W,A,S,D,Shift, Space, but ran out of ESP32's. Tried to use an IR sensor for distance which was incredibly inaccurate. We had the wiring done for AA batteries but during testing they were faulty and we decided to use the laptop connection.