YAB » communication http://blog.alexgirard.com Yet Another Blog Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en [Spime] Distant touching http://blog.alexgirard.com/spime-distant-touching/ http://blog.alexgirard.com/spime-distant-touching/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:56:00 +0000 alx http://blog.alexgirard.com/2007/09/26/spime-distant-touching/ Internet communication has not reached its limit yet: we have text, sound and video easily available. Few years ago, some people tried to develop odor extension, but I’ve not seen this really breaking through yet.

Because I need to communicate with someone, and I miss something, I was thinking about adding another sense to our internet communication: touch.

Since then, I’ve been playing with the Arduino card (see previous post), and play to connect it to an USB massage gadget. By internet, both gadget will communicate, each personn allowed to make the other gadget massaging more or less quickly.

Today I’ve discovered that Thomas Edwards has already complete his touch project!

From there, I’ve found many interesting links that will greatly help in my own project, hoping that knowledge will flow in both directions:

  • Phy2Phy: a wiki about physical interaction over IP, with lots of useful information to develop your own hardware, and because interaction is not limited to touch;
  • Touch source code and more technical information
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