We have two fully functional haptic compass belts capable of interfacing with the Nokia N900.
I activated a picture of my place and was able to successfully follow the directions all the way home…
I’ve made an interesting discovery through this project about Linux (or projects that originated from Linux) and Maemo programming. Most documents, library references, tutorials, etc. seem to make make the assumption that anybody reading the document already knows a lot about Linux programming, just not about that particular item/library you …
Last night, Mike and I performed our first true integration test of the prototype belt and it went far better than I expected. The test was fairly simple; it involved me running the N900 and Mike wearing the belt. I would send directional commands to the belt and Mike would …
Hey everyone! Tim, here. It has been a while since my last post, so I figure it is time for a Haptic Guide software update.
The holidays were definitely a slow time for software development with everything else going on. However, it is amazing how much having a camera crew tracking …
Hey N900 hacker world! Tim here. I’ve been plugging away at the programming of our GUI in C and today I decided to try a test application in Python. I have never worked with Python myself and never realized how easy it would be. Over the course of a couple …
Last night was a productive night from a programming standpoint for us. After some playing, I was finally able to get Bluetooth communication from the N900 to my “belt simulator” running through software, with thanks to the Light Hack Crew for providing me with a bit of example code from …
Hey, N900 hacker world! My name is Timothy, also known as Gargamel (perhaps I will tell that story later), and I will be in charge of software development for the Haptic Guide team.
I just made it back from Las Vegas friday evening to a big snowstorm here in Edmonton, so …