Wiper glove

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2008/05/27 @ 3:07 pm
Category General

Instructables user mikeasaurus has trouble keeping his motorbike visor clear riding on the rainy Canadian west coast, so he attached a bit of a car wiper blade to one of his gloves. One “phew” action, and he has a clean visor! Should also be good for snowboarders. Here’s the instructable for a wiper glove.

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5 Responses to Wiper glove

Steven on May 27th, 2008 at 10:13 pm said:

you can buy snow gloves with wipers on them, I have a pair of gloves for snowboarding at home with this wiper feature. quite handy in the right conditions.

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armcurl on May 28th, 2008 at 12:59 am said:

…or he could have just bought a pair that already had a wiper attached. They’ve been commonplace on motorcycle gauntlets for years now.

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Dave Isembard York on May 28th, 2008 at 2:13 am said:

@Steven & armcurl
Wait, what’s this site called — “Make”, or “Buy”? Who cares if “he could have just bought a pair” if he *doesn’t need to* because he can *make* them
Go play elsewhere, with your shiny, bought toys…

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Scott M on May 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm said:

Dave,

You’re right, and so are Steven and armcurl.

I think they were reacting to the wording of the blog post, which made it seem that this was a new idea.

But when you read the instructable, its clear that mikeasaurus knew he could buy this. He just had a new pair of gloves and didn’t want to buy another pair.

I would have preferred that Make had worded the post differently. The fun thing about projects in Make are:
1. Making something useful that no one has made before
2. Making something useful that already exists, but your way is easier/cheaper.

Make should play up these points in the posts.

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Becky Stern on May 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm said:

Thanks the the suggestions, Scott, I’ll keep them in mind. Because I don’t snowboard or ride a motorcycle, I hadn’t seen this idea before, so it was new to me.

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