vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) (08/19/90)
Does anyone have information on the engineering of the Mattel power glove. I'm wondering if it would be possible to connect it to the amiga with suitable reverse-engineering. i heard an RS232 version is due out in a couple months. Anybody have comments, suggestions, info? ruze veenu@mtfmi.att.com
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (08/20/90)
In the Amiga groups, vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes: >Does anyone have information on the engineering of the Mattel power glove. >I'm wondering if it would be possible to connect it to the amiga with suitable >reverse-engineering. i heard an RS232 version is due out in a couple months. >Anybody have comments, suggestions, info? An extensive discussion on the Mattel Power Glove has been going on in sci.virtual-worlds almost forever; take a look! Latest news is that a lawsuit ended with a new party in control of glove sales, and instead of Nintendo's limited engineering information, there should be a glove for sale with full "high precision location" hardware and software interface specs in about two months. The down side is, the price about tripled, from $70 to $200, per the same posting. (Guess who gets to pay for the lawsuit? Don't you just love lawyers?) Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca (08/20/90)
There is an article in a recent Byte that describes connecting the Power Glove to a PC, I believe ********************************************************** * Tom Hayko * only the Amiga /// * * tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca * (if only Commodore /// * * * knew that) \\\/// * * * \XX/ * ********************************************************** QUIT
maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) (08/23/90)
> >In the Amiga groups, vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes: > >>Does anyone have information on the engineering of the Mattel power glove. >>I'm wondering if it would be possible to connect it to the amiga with suitable >>reverse-engineering. i heard an RS232 version is due out in a couple months. >>Anybody have comments, suggestions, info? > I have seen an add offering an amiga interface with software to drive the glove in one of the amiga mags, Amazing Computing, I think. The interface is 50$. I will try to locate more info. tim
jsurine@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (James Surine) (08/28/90)
In article <12408@netcom.UUCP> maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) writes: >>In the Amiga groups, vrr@cbnewsj.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes: >>>Does anyone have information on the engineering of the Mattel power glove. >>>I'm wondering if it would be possible to connect it to the amiga with suitable >>>reverse-engineering. i heard an RS232 version is due out in a couple months. >>>Anybody have comments, suggestions, info? > I have seen an add offering an amiga interface with software to drive >the glove in one of the amiga mags, Amazing Computing, I think. The >interface is 50$. I will try to locate more info. > tim Make sure this interface supports the extended mode (X,Y,Z,Pitch,Yaw,5 fingers The simple mode simply emulates a Nintendo controller. As for hooking it up I am working on it. VPL research designed the glove and has recently won a lawsuit supporting there ownership of the technology. They are going to announce a special Powerglove with a serial interface in a couple of months for $200 bucks (everything VPL sells is expensive but it is state of the art VR technology). There is an adapter that works with the Mattel version of the glove and I am trying to talk to the guy at VPL who knows about this but he's been out of town. The article in BYTE magazine (july 1990) only shows how to read the standard info out of the glove. The guy who wrote the article reversed engineered the signals to get it. There is a new game comming out for the Power glove on the Nintendo in a few months that will use the extended mode and the guy from BYTE says he will reverse engineer it if the info doesn't get out sooner. -- ____________________________________ j.surine@Wichita.NCR.COM (Jim Surine) | | NCR Peripheral Products Division | I did not say this, I was not here | work (316)636-8586 home (316)721-6280 /_____________________________________|
ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) (08/31/90)
In article <665@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> jsurine@entec.UUCP (James Surine) writes: > >Make sure this interface supports the extended mode (X,Y,Z,Pitch,Yaw,5 fingers >The simple mode simply emulates a Nintendo controller. As for hooking it >up I am working on it. VPL research designed the glove and has recently won >a lawsuit supporting there ownership of the technology. I thought Mattel had licensed the DataGlove technology from VPL to make the PowerGlove. Why did they have to resort to a lawsuit?