Started on building the arduino which will fit inside my glove, First of all tried out capsense. You can read all about it on the IMI Wiki, or here
I also recommend this video, which manages to make the whole subject quite lighthearted and easy to digest:
Below I have built the arduino with a capacitor, the ball of foil is the optimum shape for detecting small electrical signals given out by humans. I'm really just experimenting with the values that the capacitor can sense, then when it starts working i'l figure out what I'm going to do with it.
I apologize for the poor quality of my mobile taken pictures, but I got so excited I couldn't wait to take them with a proper camera:
Using a 1M ohm resistor, slightly better results, but you practically have to touch the capacitor for it to sense anything at all. Decided to scuttle to Maplin and get my hands on some really big resistors:
Used different combinations of 20M ohm, 10M ohm and 5M ohm resistors. Did manage to get the serial port to pick up values from a few inches away, but I really wanted readings from about 50cm so at a bit of a dead end with the capsense
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