What is HID?
HID stands for Human interface device. Any device that a human uses to interact with a computer can come under this category of human interface devices. You might be knowing these by other names such as Human machine interfaces. More advanced implementations include Brain machine interfaces.
What is this project about? This project is about creating an interaction device, that a person can use to interact with the computer. In this project we specifically used an accelerometer capture data from hand movement and translate it into Mouse movement.
One of the first experiments that i did with HID is to setup automated mouse movement
The Wired version takes input from the IMU (Inertial Motion Unit MPU 6050) and passes the information to the micro-controller which then process the information and sends instructions to the computer to move the cursor/pointer.
The wireless HID
The paper we wrote for this device needed some major rewrites and hence we decided not to publish it. After college it was hard for everyone to find time to invest in the paper as everyone got busy with their lives.