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Complicators gloves. CriCut some card stock to have an SD-card shape and stick some post-it paper over both sides. "Lift to Experience"

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You can do it without tape if the correct sized corner or edge flaps are cut into the card stock. Think "apple sim tool unboxing card stock flaps". could cut some cool design also or note that professional vinyl cutting shops have expanded so they can print and cut same time on cardstock to make a cool card- super cheap and likely with near-on-demand turnaround

The whole project itself seems like "complicators gloves" to be honest... Just buy something like a RasPi and be done with it (and it if even comes with WiFi and Bluetooth which you can disable).

You could even base it on the Compute Module 4, which can be bought in variants without the physical WiFi/BT hardware, if you don't trust the hardware overlay disabling the hardware.

> Complicators gloves.

Er, what?

Complicators gloves are a tongue-in-cheek reference to making problems for solutions instead of the other way around. The specific reference to the gloves, were from a, way back, article.

A person was riding their bicycle and had cold hands, as they rode with cold hands they pondered why no one had ever created heated grips for bicycles. They reach out to others, and a project begins. The momentum builds until someone mentions to the group that no one had done this because gloves were a perfectly viable solution to cold hands. Gloves.

> https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_complicator_0x27_s_glov...

Ah, typical short sightedness.

Heated grips are reasonably common… on motorcycles.

But only in addition to gloves right? You probably don’t need that on bikes because gloves are enough at the speed you normally ride a bike at. You only need heated grips on motorcycles because you are sometimes going very fast and gloves are too cold, right? I have never ridden a motorcycle but that’s what I imagine it’s like, correct me if I’m wrong.

I've never had a bike with heated grips, they seem a bit silly to me. When I ride in cold weather, I wear thick leather gloves that block a lot of the wind, I don't know how much heated grips would help through thick gloves. For super cold weather, I have a set of electrically heated gloves that do an excellent glove, they're marketed at snowmobile riders

Pogies are a huge improvement for bikes. Strongly recommend for anyone riding in the winter. See, there actually is nuance here!

Like the blower aimed at the conveyor belt to blow the empty tube paste boxes away?

The opposite. Complicators gloves would be to use a solar powered fan to make electricity that drives a robot arm which uses a raspberry pi driving a computer vision controlled arm which is plucking individual boxes and folding them neatly into a waiting robot retrieval and delivery bot.

The "uncomplicator" responds with "just blow them off with a fan".

Be the uncomplictaor.

_edit_: actually I'm the 2nd degree complicator compared to crafish's reply, which is just "cut four rounded slots with an x-acto", no adhesive necessary.

2nd edit: two diagonal slots, one for each corner. Be the uncomplicator.

one slot. stick it through, lay it flat.

These days, Deliveroo/JustEat cyclists have got a sort of big glove that attaches to the handlebars, kind of combining these ideas. Hands are warm when cycling (very important in the UK) but they don't have to remove the gloves to operate phones or open their bags and do the actual delivery.

I think the search term is "handlebar mitts".

I've also seen them called pogies.

Interesting, I appreciate the term drop, that may be what I’m looking for.

I’ve considered fabricating some sort of handlebar shields for my ATV when I need to be out in the winter when it’s raining (I work in agriculture in Eastern Oregon) because it seems that gloves that can handle both wind, cold and wet just don’t exist.

Often “waterproof” gloves simply aren’t or have a non-waterproof area on the back/wrist that gets soaked when rain flows down my vinyl (or pvc, I forget) jacket leaves.

What I currently use, extra large heavy duty kitchen gloves over smaller insulated gloves, with vinyl jacket sleeves going over the combination, tends to poorly retain heat in wind, especially while riding. An upside of just using a kitchen glove layer, is they are easy and cheap to have spares ready when they get muddy, or break.

Heated handlebars sounds nice actually, though that wouldn’t be a fully fix to the wind problem.

I’d also love see some sort of jacket made of shingled layers of vinyl that allows for breathability when it’s warmer but still wet in the spring. (Perhaps use some sort of spacing between shingles to foil capillary action) Gor-Tex style jackets are worthless if you are sweating while it’s raining, may as well just use vinyl and get just as sweat soaked while having a cheaper jacket that lasts longer under damaging conditions.

Winter/rain gear seems intended for people in snow or just standing around.

https://www.hippohands.com/

these also exist for road bikes. I have them. You need all your cables to run under the tape for them to work. They're a lifesaver for winter training. You can wear normal cycling gloves to a way lower temperature. But you can only ride with your hands on the hoods, not the drops.

why not just type that exact quote into google? it's the first link

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