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People struggle to get their Bluetooth headphones to pair reliably with their phone, can you imagine the nightmare of simultaneously pairing with a phone, an ex
by ohazi 5y ago
People struggle to get their Bluetooth headphones to pair reliably with their phone, can you imagine the nightmare of simultaneously pairing with a phone, an excavator, and two bulldozers?
- LinuxBender 5y agoI think you would pair your headphones with some type of primary multiplexer that knows how to talk to the other gear and is probably centrally managed by the foreman. So your headphones in this model could see one device and thus you could use standard bluetooth headphones. I could see some type of Arduino or similar device acting as the multiplexer. Unsure if an arduino is capable enough but others here could probably chime in. That device could also handle the local communications. Maybe its a RasPi in a bright yellow case that goes on your tool belt with a DeWalt/Hilti/Bosch logo, whomever you partner with to fund this. Oh and a removable standard speed charging battery standardized to charge with the other tools.
- DarylZero 5y agoBluetooth is insufficiently reliable for this application.
- LinuxBender 5y agoWhat would be better?
- DarylZero 5y agoAnalog broadcast. Or digital, maybe, but still one-way broadcast.
- nitrogen 5y agoSound waves broadcast really well through air, and they come with localization information built in to the signal.
- DarylZero 5y agoThe problem we're trying to solve in the headphones is that sound waves are neutralized by the headphones.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI suppose that works for the headphones that have FM receivers. I use those today for playing mp3's in the vehicle since I only use older vehicles. Tricky part is workers close to each other having to coordinate frequencies but it's doable.