THE APPLICATION & SOLUTION Haptics is often associated with touchscreens, but in this application, our customer introduced haptic feedback with a very different goal – to simulate the feeling of a patient’s heartbeat! Our customer is a medical company with the expected high requirements on
Introduction At PMD we not only manufacture high-quality miniature motors and mechanisms, but we also design and make our own testing equipment. This means that we have a wide range of proprietary dynamometers, environmental and longevity testing equipment so that we can have confidence in the
Introduction Our haptic feedback evaluation kit is an inexpensive tool for everyone interested in implementing a vibration alerting or haptic feature into a project. It allows application engineers and designers to understand the performance of the various actuators that we produce. It can also be
We recently added a new tutorial for the M20-200 Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit, which looks at driving multiple LRAs from a single source. Unfortunately, driving multiple LRAs at the same time is extremely problematic for a single haptic driver as many of the excellent
Many haptic applications, in particular, wearables, face severe trade-offs in overcoming limitations in power supplies. A battery’s volume is directly related to a host of other desirable specifications, such as voltage, current, or capacity. For many designers, squeezing as much life out of their battery
We recently published a new tutorial for our Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit that explores how to play music or other audio signals on a vibration motor or LRA. Using the great new “Audio-to-Vibe” feature in the DRV2605 and the 3.5mm audio socket on the Haptic
One of the first tutorials for our new Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit covers enabling the ‘slider’ function on the kit. One of the most visible changes to the Haptic Shield includes the new arrangement of capacitive touch buttons that act as navigation for the kit’s
We are delighted to announce that our new revision of the Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit is now available! Some of the first units have already been shipped to those who signed up for our release email list, we now have more batches arriving and available for
Haptic feedback is all about transmitting information to the user, often they are required to tell the difference between the multiple types of notification. This is where we enter the world of human factors engineering, or ‘ergonomics’. This is the discipline that considers how humans interact
In this article, we’ll clear up a confusing difference in terminology and attempt to create a common language surrounding vibration frequencies. The problem arises because in normal conversation we might refer to a single vibration effect as ‘a vibration’. For example, you might say your