[Greg’s] been playing around with wearable hacks for quite some time now, and he’s decided to add a new twist for his latest LED light suit (Mk 4) — An ancient NES Power Glove to control it.
He was inspired by the band Hypercrush who had a music video where one of the guys was wearing a laser-shooting power glove — awesome. Having already made light suits before, he thought it’d be fun to do something similar.
The suit is controlled by an Arduino Pro Mini which has been hacked into the Power Glove for ultimate button pushing capabilities. He’s using 5 meter LED strips of the classic WS2812 RGB variety, which allow for individual LEDs to be addressed using a single pin. It’s powered by a 5V 2A USB battery pack, and he’s made all the components very modular, you could even say it’s “plug and play”!
Power Gloves make a great starting point for some really cool projects — someone converted one to a WiiMote once, and in celebration of its 20th anniversary, someone brought one up to speed technologically.
[Thanks Andrew!]
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Problem is, most Power gloves were made for tiny hands so normal size adults dont fit. so if you have to modify one you might as well build something from scratch.
I love the powerglove
hey….do yall remember when HaD would actually post cool shit…..yeah me too…..
another antique collectors piece fucked up.
lame as shit
I’d honestly be embarrassed to have something this dumb published under my name.
Wow, is this guy from the future? You know, like the 1980’s future?
Wow. So many haters. It’s a powerglove – it was a piece of shit even when new. Get over it. This guy has made something cool with it, where otherwise it would have just sat unused in a drawer or something.
Damn i had a power glove.. currently need one to mod for a augmented reality project….
I built my own 10 flex sensored power glove thing for my robotic hand project back in 2007, was great! 12$ each from the US as Jamesco were the only company selling the flex sensors… http://www.roboteernat.co.uk/animatronics/robot-hand/
Please stop using the phrase “off of” – it’s horrible. Instead use “from”.