I chose some small momentary micro-switches to use for the buttons. Polarity is not a factor, so there is no need to label positive and negative contacts, just check the contacts with a circuit tester while pressing the button to make sure you know which legs to solder to. The one’s I got, had two legs on each side, I was able to use two of the legs on one side and ignore the others.

Carefully solder the prepped ends of your twisted wires to the two legs you are using. It helps if you tin the ends of the wires and the legs of the switch first. Repeat this for all 5 switches and wires.

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Once you have all of your switches prepped we can start actually attaching them to the glove. We will be placing one switch on each of the 4 fingers, and one on the side of the hand near the thumb. The 4 finger switches will control Left Click, Right Click, Scroll Up, and Scroll Down. The side switch will turn mouse tracking on and off.

Fingers:Use a pin or sewing needle to poke two holes in the side of the middle rubber guard on one finger. The holes should be about as far apart as the legs on one side of a switch. Next put a dab of gel super glue on the middle of the guard where the switch will go. Now press the two legs that you haven’t soldered wire to into the holes in the guard and fold the switch over onto the dab of super glue. The switch should be centered in the middle of the guard. Option 1: The part with the holes and the legs might be optional, you can probably just glue them on, but I wanted to make them extra sturdy so that’s what I did.

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Option 2: Another thing I did, was I arranged the buttons so that the index and middle finger buttons had their wire side facing the inside of the hand, and the ring finger and pinky reversed so there wouldn’t be any wires on the outside of the hand and it looked symmetrical.

Side Switch:For the last switch bend the two unused legs flush with the bottom of the switch, and then bend the wired legs out so that the whole thing will sit flush against the side of the glove. Glue this switch to the side of the hand, more or less on the side of the index finger knuckle so that you can easily reach it with your thumb but it is mostly out of the way.

Once all this is done you’ve got a glove with five buttons attached to it and wires trailing off of it. Next we have to rig them so they activate when you flex your fingers.

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