H.A.I.L.

Inspiration

We wanted to create something that helped other people. We had so many ideas, yet couldn't stick to one. Luckily, we ended up talking to Phoebe(?) from Hardware and she talked about how using textiles would be great in a project. Something clicked, and we started brainstorming ideas. It ended up with us coming up with this project which could help a lot of people in need, including friends and family close to us.

What it does

Senses the orientation of your hand, and outputs either a key press, mouse move, or a mouse press. What it outputs is completely up to the user.

How we built it

Sewed a glove, attached a gyroscopic sensor, wired it to an Arduino Uno, and programmed it in C# and C++.

Challenges we ran into

Limited resources because certain hardware components were out of stock, time management (because of all the fun events!), Arduino communication through the serial port

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We all learned new skills, like sewing, coding in C++, and programming with the Arduino to communicate with other languages, like C#. We're also proud of the fact that we actually fully completed our project, even though it's our first hackathon.

What we learned

how 2 not sleep lolz Sewing, coding, how to wire gyroscopes, sponsors, DisguisedToast winning Hack the North.

What's next for this project

We didn't get to add all the features we wanted, both to hardware limitations and time limitations. Some features we would like to add are the ability to save and load configs, automatic input setup, making it wireless, and adding a touch sensor to the glove.

Built With

• .net
• 20-cans-of-soda
• arduino
• c#
• c++
• two-xxl-shirts
• visual-studio
• winforms