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DIY Conductive Gloves
For various reasons I need my gloves to work on capacitive touchscreens in the upcoming winter and decided to craft my own solution instead of buying specialized gloves and hoping they'd work as advertised. So I'm in the process of buying some thread and fabric and start sewing. Anybody else tried this?
Some guide: http://www.instructables.com/id/Maki...reen/?ALLSTEPS This guide does not use the conductive sheet, but has the same idea. |
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One of my friends did.
Worked great. Tried it out... Felt a little weird and odd. But it was good for on-screen button/ app symbol pressing... Take your time to sew it right so that the finished product isn't annoying/ irritating is all I can suggest. |
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Did your friend have fabric & thread or only thread as per the instructables.com link? I mainly need this for scrolling, any experience on that with your friend's gloves?
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He wanted to try both on 1 pair of old gloves...used the fabric and the thread method. One on first finger and other on 2nd...(felt like having a lump on the finger...slightly irritating...like a pebble in your shoe...)
The trick (after trying it out) I think with either method is... 1- make sure your gloves are not just thick enough to be warm but have a firm finger tip. Glove finger tips that move under your finger as you try to do something don't help. 2- with the thread I'm sure you'd get used to it...initially it felt like having a ball-point pen in the middle of a brick...when trying to do specific detail. But I'm sure you'd get used to the placement of the "point" and it's reference to where it actually is on the screen. Wasn't quite centered. After trying out his experimental If I were to do it...(considering it does get a bit cool out here in winter I'd think about it) A few things imperative to change IMO... I wouldn't use a sheer or thin glove for sure...what's the point. Get a good Thinsulate brand glove with good firm/ rigid fingertips... Then use the fabric ...(if you don't intend on doing abusive work to the gloves that is...last thing you need to do is "catch" that spot on your gloves and tear or alter the ability or accuracy of your use with your device...) or do the thread...but I wouldn't ever do it on the pad of the finger...gently undo the threading on the seam of the fingertip and do your threading there then sew it back up again....then you can have all the accuracy without the irritation...and you can still do work with your gloves on without damaging the work you have done on your gloves. |
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I've heard that using sausages (while also wearing gloves) to imitate your finger works, too. Anyway, it's quite amusing to see how "industry" forces us to jump through the fire loops to use devices, that were perfectly usable with (superior) resistive screens.
/Estel |
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HAHAHAHAHAAHA
sausages! My god that's funny Estel! Poor old dead Jimmy Dean must be rollin' in his grave! Funny thing is.... I bet it works better'n anything else too :D Completely agree... little beats a decent resistive. |
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I guess it's like with music. The vast majority of what you hear on the radio is utter rubbish ("garbage" for out NA friends :)). Yet that's what the youngsters want. They want what the industry feeds them, the industry feeds them more of what they want... a viscous circle. |
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Btw, not so amused. And thanks for all the tips endsormeans, they are greatly appreciated! |
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oh man...
jeez.. I feel for you... |
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I'm thinking these could come also "handy" when your mother in law comes to visit. Just overload the electric system, and ask her to take a look in the fuse box while she is wearing a pair of these. ;)
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