/tags/signals/Recent content in Signals onHugoenFri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000/2014/05/gesture-control-mouse-input/Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000/2014/05/gesture-control-mouse-input/<p>The project for my Sophomore Design class at South Dakota School of Mines &amp; Technology. For our semester long project, my group decided to make a wearable device that could translate hand gestures into mouse input for a computer. We nicknamed the device “The BAND” as an acronym of the involved members first names.</p> <!-- more --> <h2 id="reading-hand-gestures">Reading Hand Gestures</h2> <p>To read the user’s hand position, we used an electromyography (EMG) sensor attached to the forearm with silver coated fabric and conductive gel. Whenever a muscle flexes in the human body it releases a very small amount of voltage.</p>