Smart Glove

Smart Glove is a wearable "manual on your hand". As the wearer touches a button, knob or screen on an appliance, the glove recognises it and plays step-by-step audio guidance, so people with disabilities, older adults and anyone who benefits from hands-on instruction can learn smart home devices independently.

The prototype is a black glove with conductive fingertips and a round Circuit Playground-style microcontroller on the back of the hand, wired to a small red NFC/RFID reader module and a LiPo battery. The photos suggest each control on the device carries an NFC tag: the reader picks up whichever control the hand is on, and the board triggers the matching instruction on a Bluetooth speaker.

To test it, the team built a life-size Smart Oven mock-up from cardboard, with white discs for the dials and buttons, a paper menu display and a "Try Bake a Pizza!" card that walks the user through a task. A mock-up like this is a cheap way to rehearse the full interaction before touching a real appliance.

Tips: tape or tie down the wiring at the wrist so the glove survives repeated use, and put tags where a finger naturally lands, not where they are easiest to stick. The full build is documented on Instructables (linked).

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