Cyborg Light Painting Gloves! (an easy LED switch)

A few months ago I came across this great how-to on light painting from the Exploratorium.   The process is incredibly simple -- you can do it with any camera that has a manual setting (so you can set to long exposure) and a light source.   The tutorial included a guide for programming a PicoCricket to easily switch lights so you can paint in different colors without switching "brushes."  Seemed cool!    The problem is that our PicoCricket got mixed in with the LEGOS and hopelessly taken apart.    Rather than going through the giant bag and try to find all the pieces, we decided to make a low-tech alternative using a glove, a few LEDs, a coin battery, some wire, and a little bit of tinfoil.  

 

Step 1 What you'll need

Materials:

-- A glove 
-- Three or four LEDs of different colors
-- Insulated wire
-- Black electrical tape
-- 3V coin battery  (you can use a battery pack, but it's a little more unwieldy)
-- Fusible interfacing  (iron-on -- available at a sewing supply store)
-- Tinfoil
-- A binder clip

Tools:

-- Wirestrippers
-- An iron
-- Hot glue gun  (optional)