Components and supplies
Vibration motor
1N4007 – High Voltage, High Current Rated Diode
Arduino UNO
General Purpose Transistor NPN
Capacitor 100 nF
Resistor 1k ohm
Switch regulator 3.3v 1A
Tools and machines
Hot glue gun (generic)
Soldering iron (generic)
Project description
Code
Right hand
arduino
Left hand
arduino
Right hand
arduino
Left hand
arduino
Downloadable files
Fingerscan - schematics
see: https://goo.gl/9Gb5cq
Fingerscan - schematics
Comments
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Anonymous user
2 years ago
Would it be at all feasible to use this to listen to a piece of music through your fingers or does that require more sensitivity? Thanks
touchmysound
2 years ago
If you mean "listening" with your aural organs, it doesn't work. The idea here is to produce a vibration pattern that can be felt through your tactile perception. On that level, you could translate sound from a drum set into a configuration of tactile impulses (bass drum on your thumb, snare drum on your middle finger, maracas on your pinky...). This lets you experience the rhythm, while the timbre is defined by *where* the vibration happens. So a deaf person can experience the drum pattern as well, but in an alternative way.
Anonymous user
2 years ago
will you pls share the output video of this project...!
touchmysound
2 years ago
Ciao Sanjay, There is no documentation video - if this is what you are referring to - because vibrations are not visible in this device. In some other case i produced video animations to show how the vibration patterns would behave (see for example 'Audiotactile Chair' and 'Wooden Waves' on http://www.alessandroperini.com ). But in this case the vibration patterns were quite simple, quite much like a test, so for now it's not that necessary. Hope to elaborate more this project in the future though!
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Hi, I am trying to create a similar project that is able to translate Music to vibration through vibrators around the body for people who are hard of hearing. The only difference is that I would like it to output any music, mp3. Kind of like haptic earphones. Is there any way to adapt the code for this? or would you know any examples like this?. I would appreciate it greatly
touchmysound
2 years ago
There is a work similar to what you describe at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design - New York , until October 25th. By an Israeli designer. I can't remember the name anyway, Using two touchable terminals to feel the music. If you want to translate the music to separate outputs - you need to have separate tracks for different instruments in order to stimulate different parts of the body with different instruments. Like bass drum to your belly, snare to your chest, voice to your neck, cymbals to your head, guitars to your hands and so on...
johnbrownsimmonds
2 years ago
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Anonymous user
7 years ago
Hi, I am trying to create a similar project that is able to translate Music to vibration through vibrators around the body for people who are hard of hearing. The only difference is that I would like it to output any music, mp3. Kind of like haptic earphones. Is there any way to adapt the code for this? or would you know any examples like this?. I would appreciate it greatly
touchmysound
2 years ago
There is a work similar to what you describe at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design - New York , until October 25th. By an Israeli designer. I can't remember the name anyway, Using two touchable terminals to feel the music. If you want to translate the music to separate outputs - you need to have separate tracks for different instruments in order to stimulate different parts of the body with different instruments. Like bass drum to your belly, snare to your chest, voice to your neck, cymbals to your head, guitars to your hands and so on...
Anonymous user
7 years ago
Would it be at all feasible to use this to listen to a piece of music through your fingers or does that require more sensitivity? Thanks
touchmysound
2 years ago
If you mean "listening" with your aural organs, it doesn't work. The idea here is to produce a vibration pattern that can be felt through your tactile perception. On that level, you could translate sound from a drum set into a configuration of tactile impulses (bass drum on your thumb, snare drum on your middle finger, maracas on your pinky...). This lets you experience the rhythm, while the timbre is defined by *where* the vibration happens. So a deaf person can experience the drum pattern as well, but in an alternative way.
Anonymous user
7 years ago
will you pls share the output video of this project...!
touchmysound
2 years ago
Ciao Sanjay, There is no documentation video - if this is what you are referring to - because vibrations are not visible in this device. In some other case i produced video animations to show how the vibration patterns would behave (see for example 'Audiotactile Chair' and 'Wooden Waves' on http://www.alessandroperini.com ). But in this case the vibration patterns were quite simple, quite much like a test, so for now it's not that necessary. Hope to elaborate more this project in the future though!
junn2322
a year ago
hi~can you tell me How is the battery connected to the circuit? The Bottom right line was covered .I tried to restore this project with a breadboard, but I did not understand the positive and negative terminals of the circuit. Besides, since Switchregulator 3.3V 1A is no longer available, I want to replace it with lm2596, but I do not know how to connect it. Is the circuit diagram on the project accurate? Can you teach me? Thank you so much