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Me
- Name: OmegaTron
- Email (put "wearforge" in subject line or get bounced with the spam)
- Occupation: (young) electrical engineer
- Country: USA
Things I want to build or at least think/talk about building
So is there like a section for collaborative projects or members' ideas, or is it just for documenting and linking to things that already exist? My ideas that would like to be built or further developed (should these be moved onto their own pages and/or into the Wearhard? section?):Quadrant based wrist PDA interface.
- So you have a wristwatch-style PDA for taking notes, which can then be transferred effortlessly to your computer or viewed on the PDA or whatever. (I never remember anything, so I need to take notes constantly, phone numbers, shopping lists, band names I hear on the radio, etc.)
- Basic idea is to have a capacitive sensor for each quadrant of the LCD, and write on it with your finger, by touching, moving between quadrants, and releasing. Similar to some regular PDA writing systems with stylus and little loopy shapes and everything.
- The benefits of this interface:
- Small enough for a watch face
- Doesn't need a stylus or other tools
- Don't need to look at it to write (because you can feel and run along the edges)
- Simple circuitry, only four sensors, no "handwriting recognition", just enough to recognize short sequences of triggers.
- Two ideas for sensors (illustrated on fake photoshopped watch):
- Plain quadrants
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- Simpler
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- Quadrants with a dead zone
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- Allows diagonal movement
- More prone to error as you go through the dead zone messily
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- Plain quadrants
- Two ideas for letter mappings (Both of each are kind of shown here):
- Map shortest touches (first touching a single quadrant, then sliding from one quadrant to another, then sliding two quadrants) to most commonly used letters
- Harder to learn, faster to write
- Top half of example
- Map letters to touches that look kind of like the letters
- Easy to learn, slower to write
- Bottom half of example
- Map shortest touches (first touching a single quadrant, then sliding from one quadrant to another, then sliding two quadrants) to most commonly used letters
Teeth drumming
- I've made drumbeats with my teeth for as long as I can remember. I can hear them, other people can't. (Although they can see it if they look for it, which I just tell myself never happens.)
- For almost as long as I can remember, I've wanted to build some type of interface to amplify them or turn them into real-sounding beats
- Right now I am imagining either:
- A few microphones stuck (with something temporary I hope) to my head or jaw itself (where would be the best places?), and software to compare strength and delay times between events and decide which type of drum I am playing and how loud, fed into a synthesizer or sampler or whatnot.
- An EEG tied into similar drum-deciding software, then into the same synth or sampler. I had an EEG once, and found I could make the needles overshoot and clack against the sides of the machine by clenching my teeth, even a little bit. I managed to tap out a little beat before they told me to cut it out. I was supposed to be asleep...
- But how exactly? Don't know yet.
Fabric or elastic band keyer
- Looks like they have similar ideas on here already. (Glove with snaps on it)
- Hand is held like an A in sign language
- 1 Button (like a membrane or something minimal) on the palm of the hand for each finger, 2 or 3 buttons on the pointer finger for the thumb. Buttons are on a very minimal glove that wraps around the middle of the hand and the finger only.
- Treat as a regular old chording keyboard, but you can still use your hands for most normal things.
- Not very well thought out
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