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Super-Simple Bat Glove

Super-Simple Bat Glove

By now, hopefully, most of you will have seen Steve Hoefferโ€™s Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder project in MAKE Vol 29. MAKE regular David Prutchi recently saw it, and just sent me a link to this functionally similar device built by his daughter Hannah back in October. While Steveโ€™s rangefinder goes โ€œall outโ€ with an embedded [โ€ฆ]

Ultrasonic haptic vision system

Ultrasonic haptic vision system

Rohan Sharma and Jeff Buente, at Cornell University, posted detailed notes on their haptic vision project: The ultrasonic haptic vision system enables a person to navigate hallways and around large objects without sight, through the use of an ultrasonic rangefinder that haptically interfaces with the user via tiny vibrating motors mounted on the userโ€™s head. [โ€ฆ]