Gesture Controlled Car

My Final Project: a Gesture Controlled Car

My final project is a car that uses gestures from a glove as input for a control system. It is able to drive around and do different movements depending on how you flex or extend your hand.

This was my initial idea; it honestly has not changed much, except for my input method for the glove. My original goal was to get the car to drive around the lab being controlled by motions of my hand, and I am now able to do that.

I’ve worked on making many prototypes of the glove and car and sensor inputs. I went from a vinyl glove that would get tangled and messed up to a custom glove I fabricated that is specifically fit for my needs in this project. My first glove prototype: The final glove:

My car has grown from a press-fit design with two badly made motor-powered wheels and two free spinning LEGO wheels to a chassis I designed in Fusion that integrates my electronics perfectly, and a custom arm for a ball caster wheel I made myself. My first car prototype: The final car:

My electronics and my skills for making them have improved immensely over these past seven weeks. It started from just a simple magnetic sensor with an analog read function on a breadboard, and now my two Arduinos are able to talk to each other and all the electronic components are on protoboards I soldered. My first magnetic sensor circuit: The final protoboards:

I’m really proud of all the work I’ve done on this final project and on other assignments for PHYS-S-12, please feel free to look at the rest of my documentation to get a more in-depth look into my process!