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Instrumental Gloves for People With Health Conditions

CSEF · 2023 Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award

Dai Sophia · 10

Overview

The problem that my project solved was helping people with health conditions like muscular dystrophy and vision impairment explore and create music by replicating the experience of physical instruments through gloves. So I made a pair of gloves that can play 5 different instruments by tracking hand motions and finger movements. I created three prototypes, the last of which was my final product. I sewed a total of ten flex sensors, two microcontrollers (MCU), two inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, and one button onto two gloves, with the gloves communicating to a central controller MCU board by Bluetooth. I designed software for all three MCU boards. Based on the hand gesture and figure joint movement, I can switch instruments and play different notes. When I tested out the gloves, which could play 26 notes spanning 3 octaves, and I could play many simple songs and melodies. The notes were accurate 100% of the time, and the instrument switching was accurate 97.14% of the time. From that, I know that my proposed solution was valid. I was worried about the delay in Bluetooth communication, but the tests showed no noticeable delay when the glove and central receiver were within a 20-foot range. Since my project is meant for people with health conditions and children interested in music, distance isn’t a problem and the accuracy is high enough to guarantee a good experience.

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This record comes from a published award list, not a complete project archive. Its abstract comes from CSEF's public project showcase as archived by the Internet Archive before judging (https://web.archive.org/web/20230401224130/https://ca-csef.zfairs.com/showcase/ShowcaseInfo?f=838e60b7-ea75-46e8-865c-fde4864244b3); the version presented may differ.

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Competition history

  • CSEF 2023 Electronics & Electromagnetics · Entry S1002

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