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Haptic Belt. Kris Blair Nathan Edwards Jon Lindsay Daniel Moberly Jacob Rosenthal. Scope and Goal.
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Haptic Belt Kris Blair Nathan Edwards Jon Lindsay Daniel Moberly Jacob Rosenthal
Scope and Goal • Our project goal is to create a usable “haptic belt” which will assist blind persons in locating persons who are near or approaching them through the use of multiple vibrating motors placed around the belt. These motors will vibrate to indicate direction and distance of approaching persons. This haptic belt is a smaller part of a large project involving analysis of faces through a webcam, as well as other components • Our project scope includes • Software: the programming of a microcontroller and the creation of a DLL which will allow for the response of the belt and on-the-fly configuration from a C# program located on a computer system • Hardware: design and creation of a belt with multiple motors wired across it, as well as integration of a battery with the software system (cell phone battery allows for status updates), wireless communications, and circuit isolation