Build Your Own Atlas Gloves
May 8th, 2006
11:13am
Making your own Atlas Gloves is easy, cheap and fast.
In 5 minutes and about $8 you can have your own pair of Atlas Gloves and practically have the world in your hands.
We have documented the way we recommend making Atlas Gloves though you might find a thousand other ways to make them. (if you do, send us photos, we would love to see what you come up with)
Ok, let’s start. First of all, equipment:
- 2 White LED Keychains, we got ours at RadioShack.
- 2 white Ping-Pong balls
- 1 Glue Gun (or any other strong glue)
- 1 Nail
Untie the keychain from the light.
Make a hole in the ping pong ball with the nail.
The hole should be big enough to acomodate the LED sticking from the lighter.
spread glue around the hole in the hole in the ping-pong ball. (you can use other types of glue as well but a hot glue did the job quite well for us)
Attach the lighter to the ball. Try to fit the LED into the hole you made in the Ping-Pong ball
Hot-glue around the connection to make sure the ball stays attached to the lighter.
Technically, you are ready to go. If you want the real thing go for the full monty with the stretching fabric gloves the experience is not full without it.
To prepare the gloves themselves you’ll need:
Wrap the strap around your finger and mark it with a pin. Try to make the size fit your finger or the average finger width of the gloves future users.
Saw across the pin.
Wrap the lighter into the strap.
mark the new position with a pin and saw across it.
Cut the strap close to the last sawing. To make sure you don’t get loose threads use a lighter to burn the edges of the strap.
Now you can fit the lighter into the glove.
To keep the lighter firm inside the glove you can add another stitch through the keychain hole in the lighter base.
That’s it you’re almost there. Now:
…now you’re ready for what we have all gathered here today for… WORLD DOMINATION ! ! !
Sweet cannonballing Christ that’s amazing.
Nice take on the tactapad example. I’ve seen a few examples of this type of tech, like the high space table used at the pentagon. You guys really need to get this out on the net. It could revolutionize how a lot of apps are written. Please let us all know how we can build our own.
I would be please to test your DIY atlas gloves for education projects in primary schools.
Yes, please post this! I’d like to learn more!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!…I can’t help but think of Moses, though: Who’se going to hold your arms up when you’re tired?
I allways wanted to hug the planet!!!!
Sweet cannonballing Christ that’s amazing
[…] sorry for the long wait, we wanted to polish the code and comment the source well before putting it here for download, but now it’s up. Go download the application and build your own Atlas Gloves. As you probably can imagine, this app is pretty hacky and is bound to work differently with different types of computers and webcams. We encourage you to play with the code and adjust it, we’ve made it as accessible as we could. Now it’s your turn. […]
This is truly amazing. I love it. Can’t wait to get my hands on a projector. Thank you soooooooo much. OYu guys kick ass.
Hello this is my first post, i really wanted to try out this program, but it did not work or something went wrong, When I launch the exeutable it just stays grey, like there were no components in a new project. The problem might be that I’m using not a webcam but my camera used for filming, but it has such a feature that you can use as a webcam. Any ideas? And another question, do you just launch the exe or something more?
OS:WindowsXP
Camera: Sony DCR-TRV 240
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I didn’t know mankind could make things like this!
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good god man.. or close enough anyways
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