Reflection:

First, for disclosure, this started as a meme.  I always joked about having ultimate hacker type gloves like in 80's movies, specifically Power Gloves.  However, after taking this course, I think I have the skills in order to make my dreams a reality.

To actually create these gloves would be a big challenge.  The first would be to create a reliable circuit that passes keypresses as an ascii character for that keypress.  To do this, most likely a prototype for a keyboard that can write ascii characters as an 8 bit signal would need to be developed.  Second, after forming the keyboard, making sure it can run on a microcontroller with a power supply would need to be tested.  Third, finding an effective way for the gloves to communicate with each other would need to be devised and tested (worst case scenario, I would just make one glove).  Fourth, the gloves would have to be designed in order to make sure that the circuits would not break.

While there are a lot of difficulties with approaching this project, I still think it would be a fun long-term project that I could attempt.  This would best be used for a cosplay over any kind of actual functional glove, although optimally the gloves would be able to provide input to a connected computer.  What I love the most about this idea is that it would use most of the skills from the first two E-textiles sessions, as well as a combination of other IDeATe micro course knowledge.

Update: I plan to attempt this project potentially for Tekko 2018.  Will update it if it starts to come together.