Tap To Talk
"How can we improve communication in the deafblind community?"
Overview
Tap to Talk is a project that addresses how we might increase communication within the deafblind community. For someone who isn't able to see or hear, options are limited. The resulting prototype is a glove with integrated circuitry, where combinations of fingers are mapped to letters of the alphabet. These letters are then displayed on-screen, allowing an individual to address a large audience.
FUNCTIONALITY
Created with: Adafruit ESP8266 Feather microcontroller, FSR sensors, 10kΩ resistors, LiPo battery, conductive thread.
FSRs (force-sensitive resistors) are pressure-based sensors which have a variable resistance value that changes based on the force applied. In this project, I used five sensors total, one on each finger. These sensors are connected to the microcontroller and lithium polymer battery via conductive thread, interwovern through the glove.
I used OSC (Open Sound Control), a library adapted from osc-web, to open serial communication between the Arduino IDE and p5js interface.
Process
