Optical Glove Controller using LDR

[Jeff Haas]

A high school student came up with a very clever, inexpensive way to make a glove controller:

Optical Glove Controller using LDR

A student at the high school where I teach has designed a hand sculpture with movable fingers. I was asked to design a way to control and move the fingers for the sculpture. It occured to me that a glove-based controller would be a great way to move the fingers. Move your index finger and it...

hackaday.io

 

[lbenson]

Ingenious

 

[hippy]

That is impressively simple and low-cost, and seems to work well.

 

[steliosm]

I think it's on the same level as the "Plumbing Valve" analogue controllers:

 

[Jeff Haas]

Thanks for the link to that YouTube video, he has lots of other clever stuff (mostly with puzzles for escape rooms).