Subject: Having problems with my powerglove.

From: Jason Reich <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 18:21:49 -0800

Hi, I'm a lurker who finally got my powerglove hooked up to my PC.  I picked
it up while I was in California over the Christmas break.  Anyway, I wired 
up the connectors and all, but it does not seem to be working yet.  When I 
first power up my PC, the PG beeps, and the transducers click rapidly.  
Then as soon as the computer's self test is finished and the OS starts to
boot, the clicking stops.  Oh, the five LEDs on the receivers all start on, 
but then one by one turn off.  At this point, the glove seems dead.

If I start up the software that I ftped from sunee.waterloo.edu, the glove
starts to click rapidly again, but the LEDs do not respond properly on the
receivers and the response to the software does not seem to work.  I have
tried test.c and glovgraf.c and neither work properly.  The software does
seem to get some values, but they change spuriously, and usually jump quite 
dramatically.  As well, the keys do not seem to do anything.

I have tried a couple of different programs on the glove.  Usually they give
no response, but program four seems to make the glove work somewhat better
(it is responding to some movement) but a few seconds after program change,
the glove beeps again and goes back to its comatose state.

So, a few questions:
1. what should I expect from the glove in terms of LEDs, keys, clicks at
   different times (software running or not).
2. Is there any other code availible besides the hi res that I can try?
3. Is any information available about the signals between the computer
   and the PG?  I was thinking about trying to debug them, and make sure
   the messages go by corectly.  I am looking for timing diagrams, etc.

Note: I am having the same ftp problems mentioned a few messages ago with
karazm.  I have been using the machine at Waterloo.

A note about myself:  I am a fifth year Undergrad Engineering Student at
Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.  I am interested in Virtual 
Reality and many areas of computer graphics, and I hope to use the glove
for my ugrad thesis here.  I am trying to hook my glove to my 486/33 at
home, using power from the keyboard connector.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Jason Reich.
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