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 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
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
Since our Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit was released in early 2014 we’ve seen a number of companies use it in their full development cycle. It not only helps introduce haptic feedback to those who are not familiar with the technology, which can be great for
Reducing power consumption is one of the most important aspects of designing a device that is powered by batteries. This means there is a great incentive to keep the component count to an absolute minimum, especially active components which draw small amounts of current even
We’re seeing a great number of startups and early projects looking for design advice. In part this is thanks to advancements and cost reduction in 3D printing, but also the general adoption of crowdfunding has provided small companies and individuals with more opportunity to get