May the Force be with you!

All components of our design have been acquired, allowing us to start building the gloves. We sautered the force sensors and pancake vibrators to their respective wires. The breadboard-DAQ system is producing an excellent output graph; we simply need to add the vibrators to the system to finish the design.

A diagram of voltage divider and three force sensors. Ours is set up in a similar fashion.
http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Tutorial/virtualColorMixer_bb.png

DAQ Attack!

We have made progress connecting the DAQ to Lab View. We were able to generate a graph that varied with the force we put on the force sensor.

Connecting the Wires

The voltage divider has been connected to the DAQ.
Voltage divider to the left, DAQ in the right.

Labview has been chosen to work with because of its comparability with the specific DAQ. The voltage divider has been connected to the DAQ and calibration of the device is in process.

Et tu, Labview?

We downloaded the program Labview. We are considering using it instead of MatLab. We are going to experiment with both programs to see what will be best for our project.

Using the breadboard, we figured out what our circuitry would be. Then we acquired a voltage divider. We are still developing the code from MatLab to acquire the data from the force sensors. We need to figure out how are specific DAQ information should be interfaced with MatLab.

Mail time!

A few days ago we obtained the force sensors that we had ordered. This week in lab we will be attempting to create our set up and implement our MATLAB code.