Does ever happened to you to hold the probes in a very difficult spot on your PCB, then to need to operate your bench measure instruments, so you need
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TI (Texas Instruments) SensorTag (http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2541dk-sensor) is a nice dev board that suits well to prototype this project.
SensorTag is packed with a lot of MEMS sensors, including a Kionix KXTJ9 Tri-Axis, User Selectable ± 2g, 4g, 8g, Digital (I2C) Output, 3x3x0.9mm LGA Accelerometer (http://www.kionix.com/accelerometers/kxtj9) and an InvenSense IMU-3000 Triple Axis MotionProcessor™ Gyroscope (http://www.invensense.com/mems/gyro/imu3000.html).
SensorTag is powered by a CR2032 battery cell coin and is BLE (Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy) enabled.
It is small enough to attach it to any shoe or to simply put it in your socks. The blue thing from the pictures is the size of a credit card.
This is the beast:
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This is doable, open source speech recognition libraries are already available.
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A WebCam and video processing for gesture recognition.
It would be nice, but seems a little too complicated.
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Texas Instruments have a nice dev board named SensorTag. It's a small board with sensors (accelerometer, giroscope, etc.) powerd by a 3V CR 2032 coin cell and it's bluetooth enabled. It can be easily attached to slippers or socks and use it instead of mouse. Some dedicated software must be written for foot gesture recognition.
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As it can be seen in the video, this idea is not so good.
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This is ongoing project to find and implement the best idea for a hands free interface to electronics lab equipments.
The project is now in research and brainstorming phase. Build instructions will come as soon as a proper way to solve the problem will be decided.
Good idea!
My biggest wish would be to have a reliable voice recognition software that can work without cloud connection.
I am /really/ interested in this as I often have the same problem. May I add a couple of suggestions?
1. Head tracking to move the mouse, blink to click. There are several ways to do head tracking...
1.a. the commonly available one is to mount 3 LEDs on a hat and then use a fixed position webcam on a PC to watch the relative position of those lights.
1.b. measuring the position of the head relative to the shoulders... Seems like that could be done with something clipped to the shirt. String tape measure, or range finder from sholder to points on a hat.
1.c. Using optical tracking from the hat against the environment. This is basically the opposite of 1.a. but it can use less expensive equipment. An optical mouse, refocused to see in the distance, for example, combined with a compass / accelerometer for long term error correction. I think this is a real possibility...
1.d. Off the shelf game hardware. Wii mote strapped to a hat.
The blink to click thing is harder, but can be done. The trick is avoiding clicks from your normal blinks and detecting the "special" blinks. That can be based on the "strength" of the clicks if you are measuring muscle movement (visually or via electrodes) or duration or you can watch for "winks" but then you must watch both eyes.
2. Eye tracking where you watch the eye closely and detect the position of the pupil relative to the edge of the eye. Then you move the mouse where you look. I've had the opportunity to try out such a system and I didn't like it. Keeping the unit calibrated was nearly impossible.
RoGeorge
maybe a set of 4 foot switches in a circle, with a short post in the center to rest the center of your foot on and to pivot from switch to switch, and a button to the side. use the 4 circler buttons as direction for the mouse and the button to the side as the clicker/double clicker. maybe a switch on each side of the circler arranged switches one for the left mouse button and one for the right. then add a larger wheel to act as a scroll wheel