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✋ Hand Gesture Controller

Control your keyboard using hand gestures captured from your webcam using AI-powered hand tracking.
This Python project uses Mediapipe, OpenCV, and PyAutoGUI to map finger gestures into directional keyboard commands (up, down, left, right).

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🧠 Features

• 🤖 Real-time hand tracking with Mediapipe
• ✌️ Finger gesture detection (Thumb, Index, Middle, etc.)
• ⌨️ Keyboard control with gestures:
  • 4+ fingers: Jump (↑)
  • 0 fingers: Slide (↓)
  • 1 finger (left side): Move Left (←)
  • 1 finger (right side): Move Right (→)
• 🔄 Cooldown system to avoid repeated triggers
• 👀 Live gesture feedback on screen

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Python
• OpenCV
• Mediapipe
• PyAutoGUI

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🚀 How to Run Locally

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/aartisonigra/hand-gesture-controller.git
   cd hand-gesture-controller
   
   

2.Install dependencies:

pip install opencv-python mediapipe pyautogui

3.Run the script:

python app.py

📁 Project Structure

hand-gesture-controller/ ├── hand_gesture_control.py # Main Python script ├── README.md # This file └── .gitignore # Git ignored files