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Directional Hearing Aid

Using Haptics to give partially deaf people directional hearing

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This project was created on 07/20/2016 and last updated 9 years ago.

Description

A while back I was turned onto an anklet that would let you know which direction you were facing. It turns out that the human body will learn to filter out common sensations, such as vibration, over time while still intuitively sensing the changes in said vibration (a phenomenon well known in haptic devices). With this in mind I begun designing a device that will use a pair of microphone earrings to pass audio through an Arduino that will power a pair of vibration motors, clipped to the sides on the belt. This will allow, I hope, my wife to be able to determine the direction of sound. A schematic and parts list is forth-coming and a prototype will follow soon after.

Originally the project was all analog, that proved to be more complicated than it was worth, given the ubiquity of the Arduino, I decided to go that route.

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MicrophoneTest.fzz

The Fritzing Project for the first successful Microphone Test,

fzz - 4.29 kB - 07/21/2016 at 20:48

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MicrophoneTest.ino

The Arduino Script for the first successful Microphone Test,

ino - 394.00 bytes - 07/21/2016 at 20:47

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  • 1 × Arduino
  • 2 × Microphone Input
  • 2 × Vibration Motors Output

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  • Success!

    daelphinux • 07/21/2016 at 20:47 • 0 comments

    After some modifications to the code and component layout, I have successfully gotten a motor to vibrate in response to a sound!

    More can be seen here: http://daelphinux.com/blog/2016/07/21/dah-results/

  • PoC of the Microphone -> Output

    daelphinux • 07/20/2016 at 16:45 • 0 comments

    I have got a small Proof of Concept set up, but my Arduino is not accepting uploads for some reason. I had a new one delivered in the mail today and will be testing the circuit that is currently this project's image.

    I will let you know how that goes.

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