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What if in addition to 'distance' there were 3 more vibratory channels: red, green, blue?

• unwind 11y ago
  How should that work? Three color-filtered light sensors and A/D converters on the Ardunino? With optics to get some sense of where the sensors are "looking"? Or a full-blown video camera? But that's not very Arduino-friendly, and synthesizing three numbers from a whole image seems hard. In general, I think the appeal of this solution is its simplicity, it could be implemented on something even smaller than the Arduino. Adding video processing would be a move in the opposite direction, I think.
  • gojomo 11y ago
    To me, the appeal of this device (and potential variants) is all in the new perceptive capabilities it grants the user – independent of any implementation details. So to send color, I'd say sure, add a cheap video camera and whatever optics/CPU/software that's necessary to read the color, out along the same line for which the distance is being measured.
• jameshart 11y ago
  what's a 'vibratory channel'? vibration frequency, or vibration intensity beneath a different fingertip?
  • gojomo 11y ago
    I was thinking multiple locations/fingertips – but other perceptible ways to mix would also be interesting.