I just made a set earlier this week, they're toasty warm and awesome!



I used an old long sleeve t-shirt that I hadn't worn in quite a while - the sleeves where long, but the torso was getting a bit short for me, and it wasn't really stretching out long enough. There were some cool looking asian calligraphy on the arms, which added a nice touch. It was an old shirt I must have had for at least 12 years, real thick thermal weave fabric.



After I cut the sleeves to length, I unpinned them and used them as templates against the back of the shirt. My gracious girlfriend ran her sewing machine through the elbow-side ends (sleeve characters on the inside), then ran it through all four layers of fabric for some extra toasty warmness. The inside liner would make adding things like pockets a bit easier, which I'll probably add soon, or make another pair with a set of pockets installed before the final stitching-up.



Very Ninja (though probably illegal in some areas) additions could include fist packs inside the palms, leather and steel reinforcements over the back of the hand, steel studs across knuckles, pockets for throwing spikes or knives...



More geeky additions could be some Arduino Lilypad accessories, like a custom wireless "Power Glove" with buttons, buttons, fingertip contact switches, accelerometers and gyroscopes to be used as a game controller (which could also be used as a MIDI instrument... You could turn a Tai Chi into an interactive music experience..., or something just to run windows with something other than a mouse or trackpad - I HATE laptop trackpads and tend to use a PS2 controller rigged up as a mouse). Or it could just be used to measure punch velocity if you're in boxing or martial arts training... aww, now that sounds kinda rad. Installing a stealth audio or video recording devices is another very ninja, geeky application...



Very cool project, very simple, yet you can endlessly tweak and add to the design to make something that is truly your own. Thanks for posting this!

