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A work-in-progress
WiSHABI (WIreless Single-Handed Accelerometer-based Interface) is the project I created to complete of my university course. It was my first real exposure to programming microcontrollers and was a significant learning experience.
The hardware consists of two units:
A user of WiSHABI would connect the receiver into a USB port and then the transmitter can be used to as an input device. It could be switched between two modes - mouse and keyboard.
In mouse mode the cursor would be moved by the tilting motion of the transmitter. Thumb buttons are used for left- and right-click.
To type in keyboard mode, the unit would be pointed into one of nine sectors in a 3x3 grid then click to scroll through characters. A similar concept to the 3x3 alpha-numeric character grid of a mobile phone keypad (this was pre-touchscreen smartphones!).
The receiver unit connects to a PC via a USB-B connector. The ATmega8 doesn't have a USB peripheral, so the USB HID implementation was done in code with V-USB.
An aluminium enclosure was used for the receiver unit and a broken cordless screwdriver body was re-purposed for the transmitter.
The transmitter ran off batteries but would still operate when tethered to a plug-pack for charging.
In addition to the photo gallery below, I also archived the following resources:
 Report(pdf) |
 Code(gzipped tar) |
 Keyboard Demo(mp4) |
 Mouse Demo 1(mp4) |
 Mouse Demo 2(mp4) |
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