[Noisebridge-discuss] Wednesday: sensory substitution hangout

[Mikolaj Habryn]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> Oh man, this sounds super interesting.  I can't make this (or any)
> Wednesday but maybe if interest is strong enough we could get together
> some other time?  The weekend days are not scheduled very full at NB,
> for example.

For sure. I guess it depends on how people feel after the first
meeting, but if a few of us wind up with microcontrollers, pager
motors, and sensors or radios to assemble into something wearable,
some weekend workshops would be great.

m.

>
> Rachel
>
> Praveen Sinha wrote:
>> w00t!  I'm stoked - can't wait to start work on something like this!
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
>>> Turns out Adam (askory) and I have some similar plans for exploring
>>> haptic compass whatnots and associated gizmos, so we're going to jaw
>>> about it this Wednesday, after the ML workshop. I have little to show
>>> and tell, but will bring along the i2c magnetic sensor and arduino, if
>>> only to demonstrate the form factor possibilities.
>>>
>>> I figure where there's two there may be more, so this is a general
>>> invite to anyone else who might be interested. The barrier to entry
>>> for this stuff is remarkably low (one recent contributor to make blog
>>> built a belt-compass in 24 hours using the exact same parts that I've
>>> had sitting untouched on my bench for two months :P), and the field is
>>> very new, so hopefully we'll inspire each other to make some
>>> meaningful progress ;)
>>>
>>> Background reading:
>>>
>>> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html
>>> http://discovermagazine.com/2003/jun/feattongue
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution
>>>
>>> m.
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