Comments on: The Haptic Compass

By: aayotee (Aaron Oliver-Taylor)

aayotee (Aaron Oliver-Taylor) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:33:01 +0000

@SamHillDesign this http://www.monkeysandrobots.com/hapticcompass? I guess so, probably would be easiest to use an android phone

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links for 2010-02-01 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:02:19 +0000

[...] Monkeys and Robots – The Haptic Compass (tags: diy haptic compass arduino) [...]

By: spwert (Steffo T Steffington)

spwert (Steffo T Steffington) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:34:38 +0000

Also really want to build one of these. http://tinyurl.com/d48agh Because I desperately need this sixth sense

By: Emme Ci

Emme Ci — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:03:57 +0000

Hi, I was thinking about building something like this, but with small inflatable bubbles instead of vibrating motors.

The idea is to have a plastic belt with 8 or 12 bubbles on it and having the aire move from one to the other so that I can feel the pressure on my skin. It would probably be slower than the motors but hopefully still fast enough.

How hard would it be to manifacture the plastic belt? Would I need any special tool/skill? What about the air pumps? do you know of any small, quiet, arduino controllable air pumps?

Cheers,

Emme

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a thousand tomorrows » Blog Archive » future senses — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:11:46 +0000

[...] König developed the feelSpace belt, a compass like buzzing belt (since then a hit amongst the DIY crowd), equiping people with a ’sense of direction’ much like birds have one. Users of [...]

By: Forexfires

Forexfires — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:01:06 +0000

Best post yet!

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By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:04:45 +0000

How were you using iphone bluetooth serial prior to the 3.0 update which, as far as I know, was the first time the serial profile was enabled?

By: Ralph Zoontjens

Ralph Zoontjens — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:48:34 +0000

Hi,

these are interesting projects that you show here. You mention that the Haptic Compass can be controlled over XBee RF and I was wondering how that exactly works. Do you have a two way communication so you can wirelessly transmit both the signal of the sensor to an external processor and transmit the motor signals back? I have a belt similar to yours, but with 6 vibration motors that need to be digitally controlled over Xbee. These react to analog signals of 3 sensors of which the values need to be transmitted to a laptop that runs the Processing environment. I’ve got one pair of XBee modules to do this job and I am rather puzzled by how this would work. I was hoping you could give me some advice as also the experts from my university lack this specific experience.

Thanks a lot!