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New gyro SHAKE’s.
Have just been playing with the new gyro-enabled SHAKE devices. These are small matchbox sized units that contain 3-axis accelerometers, magnetometer, and now also gyro’s for measuring angular rate. Also included is…
April 10, 2007 -
Vincent Hayward
Vincent Hayward visited SARC to give a seminar on his work “New Methods for the Controlled Delivery of Specific Tactile Stimuli”. He talked about the novel haptic interfaces that are being developed…
March 29, 2007 -
Edge-trimmer prototype#2
Ok, here’s the first real prototype of the edge-trimmer, which is a little more solidly constructed than the chair leg version… It currently isn’t hooked up to make any noise, although it…
January 11, 2007 -
record spinning interface
Just started a prototype of a new interface. A ‘Shake’ device containing accelerometers, magnetometers, bluetooth and capacitive sensors is strapped to the center of a 10″ record, allowing the user to perform…
January 11, 2007 -
‘Edge-trimmer’ prototype
A very very rough prototype of a new instrument which may resemble an edge-trimmer has been made. So far this consists of an ergonomic handle (not a chair-leg!) connected to a magneto-rheological-fluid…
November 29, 2006 -
Arduino
Have been learning how to use an Arduino micro-controller board this afternoon. After struggling for days to do serial i/o using a PIC earlier in the year I’m surprised at how easy…
November 6, 2006 -