We did gloves FIRST?

[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