The Power Glove was the quirkiest little peripheral ever devised for the Nintendo Entertainment System . Although if find only special function on that platform , modern Clarence Shepard Day Jr. tinkers with memory access to gaudy and simple-minded microcontrollers can now turn these 25 - year - old video game artifact into futuristic wear .
YouTuber Greg Sowellposted a videodetailing his rave - friendly cosmos that have the modify Power Glove . The LED strips are all snarf up into the old - schoolhouse secret plan controller , which acts as a switch to navigate through the lawsuit ’s different options . The design is a prototype and pretty rudimentary with no time or resources to design Iron Man - like courtship , but the overall impression is still moderately trippy . Fast forward to the Power Glove light show around the 6:25 mark . Here ’s how the undertaking came about perSowell ’s web site :
One of my favored bands Hypercrush had a video where one of the bozo was wearing a power glove that had optical maser coming out of the ends . I had already made a light causa , and thought … what a dissipation . I call up “ Why not control the suit with the top executive baseball glove ? ” And thus it was born .
It would seem that modifying the Power Glove isa preferred pastime share by many . Whether just making anawesome oven mittor update its internals forcurrent - gen console , it declare a sure “ this is the future ” mystique . Unfortunately , it ’s a futurity that die out quickly , but with the advent of VR , is a futurethat might make a comeback . [ YouTubeviaHackaday ]
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