The Construction of FingerPilot ASL

	Brainstorming for our final project was an opportunity for us to allow creative juices to flow without the hindrance of the technicalities of the actual creation of it.
	A prototype of the data glove from wires. With the numerous touch sensors and bend sensors anticipated in the construction of the data glove, wire was chosen as the material for building the data glove. The malleability would allow the fingers to flex into the proper positions for each letter, while the rigidity would provide a base for the numerous sensors to attach to.
	Cotton was the final material chosen to construct the data glove. The data glove built of wire was restricting in that it could only be restricted to one size, failing to meet our goal of making this project interactive as well as universal. It was also discovered that the more wire used to construct and fortify the data glove, the more difficult it was to flex the fingers. Cotton was flexible enough to fit all hand sizes.
	Without a natural site for attaching the bend sensors to the glove, the bend sensors were sewed onto the top of the glove, each of the 5 bend sensors attached to each of the 5 fingers. Testing the sensitivity of the bend sensors and the bend resistance, the bend sensors were sewn onto the top of the data glove rather than the bottom of the data glove.
	A total of 7 touch sensors were added to the glove to help the program distinguish between letters. The mapping of these sensors was a long process, succeeding through trial and error in trying to maximize the capabilities of the bend sensors and touch sensors.
	With the mapping of bend and touch sensors, a unique number was generated for each character of the alpahbet. The final product was a glove capable of recognizing all 26 letters of the American Sign Language and translates each gesture by printing the corresponding letter on the Handy Board LCD screen.