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i'd suggest you look into building a custom midi controller rather than using the power glove as your platform.  they are pretty bad, cool concept but terrible performance. 

i think you could do this in two ways with relative ease.  the first would be to alter arduinoboy code to reflect your custom controller's input 'stuff'.  so, if you took a normal glove and stitched in an analog bend sensor into each finger, you'd have 5 analog inputs right there.  you'd assign what that analog input would do in the code, just let your imagination go with that one...  you could take the same glove and stitch on any number of input devices.  analog and/or digital.  even make your own switches with stuff like aluminum foil or copper sheeting, or etch your own inputs (PCB style) that have funny shapes or whatever. 

the other alternative would be to take a step back from this, leave arduinoboy as-is, and then use one of the many available 'make your own MIDI controller' kits and, well, make your own!  same thing...  bend sensors, switches, whatever you want.  each kit has its pros/cons (and its been a while since i looked into that stuff) so it might be easier to start by making a list of features you'd like for the controller and then see what is available which fills those shoes.  hopefully the kit allows for adjustments of the MIDI parameters so you could change CC# stuff or whatnot to fit your needs exactly.

tbh there are a lot of things you could do, i think those are maybe the simplest (in my mind at least).  the second one especially.  i'd just drop the power glove altogether and spend your energy on something which will turn out better results, with the same amount of labor and whatnot. 

also, google: http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US … ller+glove

i had a P5 setup years ago.  it was sort of cool, but more frustrating than anything...  but just keep in mind a lot of stuff like that isn't straight standalone and needs a computer.  max/msp a lot of times.  there are battery-powered MIDI kits available too i believe,

check out the lilypad type of arduino board.  its made for e-textile stuff and you'd find some interesting materials/ideas in that community.  sparkfun.com has some pretty interesting e-textile things last i looked

for real.  awaiting importation...

he means you should program a file onto the cartridge, then read the file off the cartridge onto your hard drive, and then open that file in an emulator and see if it works.  he didn't mean to try to run the file on the cart in an emulator, as-if it were on a thumb drive or something

using the rectangular types of LEDs and laying them flat so they shine directly at the buttons works well also,

like these:

with a little hot glue they hold well, and are typically something like 2x5mm so not a lot to trim away in the case at all.  you'll need to cut away a little at the circle guard around the dpad area, and the A/B buttons, the s/s buttons though are open are ready for whatever you throw at them

ALSO!

if you want to get this mod up off the PCB, you can attach the LEDs to the case with hot glue too.  to avoid hotspotting on the case, use electrical tape and put it on the case itself if its a solid color and you can't see it, or if its a clear case apply it to the side of the LED (one of the larger sides) which would be facing you or against the plastic.  if you happen to have reflective tape you could use that too and regain some of the lost light.  just don't tape over the tip of the LED or you've defeated the mod

there are a lot of ways to kill the hotspotting, but this worked well for me (although it was a while ago).  electrical tape holds well over time too.

you could also use multiple layers of paint if you wished, nail polish even (eh, on second thoughts, i'm thinking its acetone-based, right?  or not?)

egads...  i should be a better mod,

thats right though, so imma close this thread

we're very friendly though, feel free to get in touch directly!  (i had a similar email question last night, so perhaps its the same person as you, but in that instance it was a particular item in the shopping cart which had extra shipping)

i got your PM, and its super interesting, just didn't reply yet cause i'm doing stuff around

but i will   thanks for that, very interesting though

woah

thats going to be insane

*checks calendar*