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This is inspiring. The cost can be brought down through use of soft and/or lightweight materials. For example, the use of textile based actuators. Good examples

by xor99 5y ago

This is inspiring. The cost can be brought down through use of soft and/or lightweight materials. For example, the use of textile based actuators. Good examples in link below: https://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/soft-exosuits https://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/soft-exosuits These things are not for the near term so really impressed by this story.

samstave 5y ago
Dope. You know what I am wondering, the accelerometers in phones are super small, cheap and there are some sensor systems that incorporate a ton of other sensors (whatever happened to Google's smart jacket they were making with Levis) Anyway, it would be very interesting to have a textile with a fabric of accelerometers woven into the fabric... Solar panels on the thighs and what not to power the sensors... with a compression-heel in a shoe / boot to ad more power with every step. Anyone know how much power an accelerometer takes and if you can wire a matrix of them together to a set of controllers that all they do is capture the telemetry from the sensors? Check out this video on the making of accelerometers https://www.engadget.com/2012-05-22-the-engineer-guy-shows-how-a-smartphone-accelerometer-works.html https://www.engadget.com/2012-05-22-the-engineer-guy-shows-h...