We did gloves FIRST?

[Joe Ross]

The DDR pad was at the cleveland regional in 2003. Sorry, don't have any pictures, and AFAIK, there aren't any on chiefdelphi.

Jim Gold tells me that someone had a playstation controller in 2002.

Jeff, I don't consider using an off the shelf wheel to be an innovation, although it is really neat.

If you search the threads here on chiefdelphi and the image galleries, you should be able to find pictures of 308's miniature arm and 234's glove at a minimum.

[rufu5]

FIRST glove: 234 in 2001

I have never heard of these, do you have a pic? Also as soon as I get a pic of our gloves from our team leader I will post it (and one of our optical joysticks, which are way out there lol).

One of the students said that a parent from the TechnoKats said they did a glove control in 99, does anyone know about those or have a pic?

Thanks for the replys!

[Gadget470]

The above is me explaining the gloves team 470 created for the 2003 competition. These won Leadership in Control at GLR that year. However, 470 originally developed a glove system which was unveiled at the 2002 West Michigan competition. In 2003, the students of the electronics team redesigned the gloves for added comfort and more of a One-Size-Fits-Most approach.

[rufu5]

470 originally developed a glove system

What did this "glove system" include? I saw one team at nationals last year who had gloves but all they included were simple push buttons in gloves (that is seriously not meant to be mean im just trying to explain what they were to the best of my memory).

If you quote a control system please try to describe them clearly (not just "a team a few years ago did gloves that did stuff"). Thanks! (i dont mean to sound rude I just want to know what people are talking about, sorry)

[Gadget470]

470's gloves last year were to control our wings.

They were actuated pneumatically.

As to the gloves themselves, there were reed switches in each of the 8 fingers, and a magnet in each thumb. When the thumb was near enough (pinch-motion) to a specific finger, the switch would engage. Inside the programming, the switches were basically like normal on off switches.
Left-Index: Left Wing down
Left-Mid: Left Wing up
Right Index.. yeah

There was the option for expandiability, but it wasn't needed. Could they drive the robot and operate the wings? Yes, but we preferred a joystick to drive and glove for pneumatics.

If you want more information, I will give you the contact of the student designer.

[rufu5]

Thanks!
Also, you said you did a glove system not last year but the year before, what did they do? Just wondering.

[MissAbi]

For the first year, the gloves also controlled pnuematics on the robot. Our 2002 robot began in a vertical position (the wheels weren't touching the ground). So the gloves controlled the knock-over and shock mechsnisms, as well as the grip and release for our goal-grabber.

[rufu5]

Awsome, Thanks. So im right in understanding that your gloves did not drive your robot. (Now I see that my stickers were not accurate, I should have done more research, our gloves (lol as I know so far) were the first to be used to drive a robot, but not the first glove based control system in a generic sense).

Thanks for your feed back, I would still like to hear about other teams who have used glove systems previous to the 2003 season