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Fan gives Power Glove Bluetooth and accelerometer
GoNintendo — Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition -- Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Direct link here

Nintendo Power Glove Gets A Totally Rad Overhaul
GameGirl — 20 year old peripheral, the Nintendo Power Glove caught the eye of Indie game developer and modder Matt Mechtley. Matt decided to crack open the ancient piece of equipment and trick it out with some next gen hardware and bluetooth. Although it's currently not compatible with any current games on the market. That makes it about as useful as the original Nintendo Power Glove. [image] Matt posted a video of the process on his Vimeo. It's a bit long, but you can see how he took apart the machinery and replace it with new chipsets. You can check out more of his work on the mod forum http://www.instructables.com/ Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition -- Build Video ...

Power Glove Adds Functionality; Still Not Necessarily Useful [Mods]
Kotaku — In this, the 20th anniversary year of the Nintendo Power Glove, modder Matt Mechtley tricks it out with an accelerometer and bluetooth. But he still has to code some games to take advantage of it. Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Writes Matt: It's been 20 years now since Mattel released the Power Glove, in 1989. Especially in the last few years, the availability of sophisticated sensing equipment to hardware hackers has grown by leaps and bounds. Technology like programmable microcontrollers, accelerometers, and ...

Updated Power Glove is so bad
Destructoid — I always find it funny how Nintendo has come full circle with a number of their products. They introduced the Power Glove back in 1989 which had very primitive motion controls. Now we have the Wii and it's currently the best selling console, thanks in part to the motion controls. Hard to believe it's only been 20 years since the creation of the "baddest" controller of them all.  Matt Mechtley, who's worked on games such as Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Minotaur China Shop, wanted to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Power Glove by making one that could actually work. He added an ...

Remaking the Power Glove for use with Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
GoNintendo — Maker Faire Power Glove + Raptor Safari Demo from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Direct link here

So Bad: Running Over Raptors with the Power Glove
GameSetWatch — Did you know that 2009 marks the 20th year anniversary of the Power Glove, Mattel's appalling controller for the NES? Only two games specifically designed for the accessory were ever released -- Super Glove Ball and Bad Street Brawler -- but Flashbang Studios' Matt Mechtley has modified the Power Glove to work with another title, Unity-powered game Off-Road Velociraptor Safari. Mechtley admits the Power Glove was "absolutely terrible" and "horribly precise", but says he loves the peripheral for what it represented: "It's a precursor to virtual reality, a way for humans ...