Geeky Gadgets
10:57 am
HairTouch is a new concept designed for virtual reality enabling users to feel in VR, whether it be the hair of virtual reality animals or other textures within virtual worlds. HairTouch has been developed by researchers Chi-Jung Lee, Hsin-Ruey Tsai and Bing-Yu Chen, using an Arduino Mega board together with a custom 3D printed frame, enabling VR users to feel hair or fibers of varying lengths.
“If you’ve ever wanted to feel the difference between a virtual tabby cat and a virtual Maine Coon, this is the haptic feedback gadget that you’ve been looking for.” Check out the video below for a demonstration.
Geeky Gadgets
10:44 am
Using an Arduino Mega microcontroller together with some custom 3D printer parts and international team of researchers have developed a new concept called GuideBand, taking the form of an arm mounted device that physically guides players within VR.
“This device looks a bit like an external fixation apparatus for securing broken bones. It straps onto the user’s arm and has three motors controlled by an Arduino Mega via TB6612FNG motor drivers. The first motor moves the device’s gantry radially around the user’s arm. The second motor adjusts the angle of attack, offset perpendicularly from the forearm. The third motor acts as a winch and pulls a cable attached to a strap on the user’s arm.”
by Max Maxfield
The funny thing about knowing something yourself is that you tend to assume everyone else knows it also. This is especially true on a site like EEJournal that attracts electronic engineers and embedded systems developers from all walks of life. But the funny thing is when you actually get to sit down and chat with people you begin to realize how little they typically know outside their own area of expertise.
The same is true the other way round of course. In fact, although I don’t like to boast, I think it’s fair to say that people are often amazed to discover how little I know about almost any topic they care to mention. Not that this stops me from talking about those subjects, you understand; as I’ve said on many an occasion, much like my dear old mother, the real trick is to get us to
Geeky Gadgets
9:32 am
Arduino enthusiasts or Rubik’s cube solvers may be interested in a unique Arduino-controlled Rubik’s cube chandelier created by Stuart Gorman.
“This large 3D-printed chandelier looks exactly like the iconic cube, except that each section is lit by LEDs instead of covered with a sticker. Those are WS2812B individually-addressable RGB LEDs controlled by an Arduino Mega board. People usually choose the Mega when they need a lot of I/O pins, but in this case Gorman picked the Mega because it has lots of RAM to work with. That RAM is necessary for handling the complexity of the Arduino code that the lamp is running.”
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