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> I'm not sure my feet have the accuracy to work as a mouse. You should be thinking more of like a trackpoint for your feet/foot. > Foot mouse will unfortunat
by Levitating 2y ago
> I'm not sure my feet have the accuracy to work as a mouse.
You should be thinking more of like a trackpoint for your feet/foot.
> Foot mouse will unfortunately stay niche, but when I saw the device in this article, I thought, "Why not for everybody?"
I can feel my tongue having a muscle ache just by looking at this.
- moffkalast 2y agoI don't get the tongue idea either, any kind of device you'd put in would make it hard to talk and who wants to eat a battery? Plus the movement area is pretty tiny. Accurate foot movements are just training I bet, just like with anything else. Arm amputees have shown again and again that it's just a matter of practice. Plus, were any of us really that proficient with a mouse when we first started? We take it for granted but we've been honing that for decades. > trackpoint Looking at how that one works, it's just four load cells. That would be exceedingly simple to reproduce with a microcontroller that supports HID. I might actually try to make one.
- pzo 2y agoYou can try some rapid prototyping with microbit and this library below that has ble hid support https://bsiever.github.io/microbit-pxt-blehid/ https://bsiever.github.io/microbit-pxt-blehid/
- orosello 2y agoDemo showing cursor accuracy and voice control/talking when the MouthPad is in the mouth: * Only tongue tracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-z1KnIthM&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-z1KnIthM&t=1s * Head tracking mode (& wink to Neuralink demos :P) : https://youtu.be/6TTIsE4GMEU?si=TbS07BdjUaZDSwx4 https://youtu.be/6TTIsE4GMEU?si=TbS07BdjUaZDSwx4 Regarding fatigue: We constantly use our tongues for talking and eating without feeling tired and so far, current users haven’t reported tongue fatigue issues.