Artist Controls Modular Synthesizer With Custom Power Glove

Inventor and musician Sam Battle, known by his stage name Look Mum No Computer, has converted a Nintendo Power Glove to operate a modular synthesizer with the glove. He then also made a robotic arm that automates this.

In a video, the artist shows how he modified the Power Glove to control a synthesizer. To achieve this, he disassembled the glove and adjusted it to better read the sensors in the fingers. On his website is the circuit that the inventor used for this.

With the modifications, the musician managed to connect his modular synthesizer to the Power Glove and so he can create electronic music by moving his fingers. Battle didn’t stop there; he then also built a motorized robot arm that takes that finger work off your hands.

The Power Glove came out in 1989 as an official Nintendo product. The accessory was made in the United States by Mattel and in Japan by PAX. The Power Glove promised a new way of gaming, but the product flopped. There were virtually no games available for it, and the accessory wasn’t bundled with a game either.