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
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
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
Attention users of the Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit! Recently Arduino released the latest version of their IDE, version 1.6.0, which has several changes that affect the Modes of Operation that we provide. Specifically, the Arduino IDE is now in-line with the newer AVR GCC. The compiler
We are seeing a wide range of manufacturers implementing touchscreens in their products. Whilst they’ve been commonplace in the mobile arena for some time, now products like various whitegoods, information kiosks, printers and even industrial CNC machines are replacing dials and buttons. Adding haptic feedback
We’ve written a new example application for the Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit. Piezoelectric sensors can be used for a variety of applications, but we chose to look at using them for touch buttons. They’re great because they don’t get damaged as easily as normal contact switches (such as
We recently released a new example application for the Haptic Feedback Evaluation Kit, a temperature monitoring system that would play a haptic effect when a sensor in a remote location sent a wireless warning signal to the kit. Read the guide here! In our imaginary situation,