MAKING THE GLOVE......

For this project, we are going to make a wearable interface. My very first idea was to make a T-shirt with a LED screen which can show wearer's feeling on the screen. But after I read the brief thoroughly, I found I must use Keyboard hack and Max Jitter with this project. So I changed my idea to making a motion glove. Because I noticed when people have different feelings, they use different hand motions to tell. For example, fist is for excitability, middle finger is for anger. The glove can detect wearer's motion then use keyboard hack to input to Max Jitter, the videos changes for different hand motions.


The glove's material was a T-shirt.



I tried to make a glove by myself, but using sewing needles is real not my type of thing. I spent more then one hour to make two gloves, the first one was too small and the second one was too big. So my solution was to buy a pair of gloves from a dollar shop.


Inside of the glove.



With no soldering iron, I bent the connector of the switch, attached the wire to the connector, then wrapped with tape. The switches all worked perfectly in this way. For attaching the switches and wires to the glove, I used string to sew them at inside of the glove.



To tidy up the wires, I taped them together. Then connected another end of the wire to the correct connector on the chocolate block. Fortunately, I made a nice project box from the keyboard hack brief, so I don't need to spend time on it. Connected to computer, I tried the glove, it could detect the motion as I expected.

So far, the garment is pretty much finished. Now I am waiting for the tripod, after I get the tripod, I can start making the videos.