introMaking A Glove Work With A Touch Screen
You can do this in just a few minutes without a lot of know-how.
Winter's coming up (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) and with winter comes cold weather, and with cold weather comes gloves. But even in the cold your phone probably still rings. And while I love my touch screen phone, I hate that I can't use it with gloves on.
There are gloves out there that allow you do use your touch screen, but why buy special gloves when, with just a few stitches you can convert the gloves you already have?
Winter's coming up (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) and with winter comes cold weather, and with cold weather comes gloves. But even in the cold your phone probably still rings. And while I love my touch screen phone, I hate that I can't use it with gloves on.
There are gloves out there that allow you do use your touch screen, but why buy special gloves when, with just a few stitches you can convert the gloves you already have?

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step 1What You Need
Most modern touch screens use "capacitive touchscreen" which you can read about at length here, but in short it means that for a glove to work with a touch screen it needs to complete a circuit with your finger. So that's what we're going to do by putting some conductive thread between the screen and our finger.
Skills
You need to be able to sew a few stitches without killing yourself.
Supplies
You will need:
(Thanks to the good people at reMake Lounge for introducing me to conductive thread at the last Instructables Build Night)
That's it, lets get to it!
Skills
You need to be able to sew a few stitches without killing yourself.
Supplies
You will need:
- A glove.
- A needle.
- 12" (30cm) of conductive thread. (TIP: If you don't want to buy a whole spool, you can buy a few feet much more affordably from SparkFun with the Lilypad Bobbin.)
(Thanks to the good people at reMake Lounge for introducing me to conductive thread at the last Instructables Build Night)
That's it, lets get to it!

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Here is another option if you're too lazy to sew
And it doesn't have to be a finger, it can be anything that changes the field around the screen, from the flat end of a AA battery, to a snack sausage. (!!)
If you figure it out let me know, I'm going to need another pair eventually.
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Here they are.
Iphone / Ipod Winter Glove Kit
you can find it :) or if you have everything already and need help msg me and I can help you out with making your own :)
It even works with one that's dead.
It's not the conductivity, it's the heat.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Capacitive
And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
And for the iPhone specifics, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Screen_and_input
My point is that ipods do not work with cold fingers.
G2 Original (30GB)
G5 Video (30GB)
V1 Touch (32GB)
V2 Touch (32GB)
NONE of them work in the climate here, how cold are you talking?
My Ipod shuffle G1 and G2 Both work, obviously.
But some of my friends do work, so it might be just mine.
But when it gets really cold, none of them work (The coldest temperature here was below -50 C )