The project for my Sophomore Design class at South Dakota School of Mines & 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. Reading Hand Gestures To read the user’s hand position, we used an electromyography (EMG) sensor attached to the forearm with silver coated fabric and conductive gel.

The final project for my Circuits II class. Our task was to come up with a project that could be done as a if it were a lab exercise. We could use any equipment within the lab and would write up the process as if it were an exercise received from the professor. Wireless electricity always interested me. Being able to connect a device for power without any wires makes the whole process seem like something from a sci-fi film.

Install the needed dependencies to build Yocto: apt install build-essential chrpath diffstat gawk libncurses5-dev python3-distutils texinfo Create a folder to hold the different Yocto layers mkdir yocto Clone the dunfell version of Yocto: git clone -b dunfell git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git poky-dunfell Clone the meta layers within the dunfell folder: cd poky-dunfell git clone -b dunfell git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded git clone -b dunfell https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5.git git clone -b dunfell git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-security.git Clone the meta layer for the custom build recipes: git clone -b dunfell https://github.