The Novint Falcon (by Novint Technologies, Inc.) is a 3D force-feedback haptic device. The user holds a grip that measures the hand's position, and can exert forces on the hand.
Novint Technologies, Inc., only provides Novint Falcon driver support for Windows.
Dependencies:
- Windows:
- Requires a more recent HDAL SDK than is publicly available (currently 2.1.3 is publicly available) http://home.novint.com/index.php/support/downloads
- Install the Falcon drivers.
- Install the SDK.
- Run NDSSetter as administrator (executable provided with the HDAL SDK) to set an environment variable named NOVINT_DEVICE_SUPPORT to the directory where the SDK was installed.
- Add the directory containing hd.dll to the environment path (e.g.,
C:\Program Files (x86)\novint\HDAL_SDK_X.X.XX.XX\bin
).