Novint: Haptic Device

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
      1. Install the Falcon drivers.
      2. Install the SDK.
      3. 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.
      4. Add the directory containing hd.dll to the environment path (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\novint\HDAL_SDK_X.X.XX.XX\bin).