Greetings,
Together with some fellow students we're trying to create a new device,
which is aimed to help people who suffer from being fully deaf or near deaf.
It's just an school project, so we have an low budget, but we are still trying to make the first prototype as good as possible.
The current concept is to implement two to three small microphones into an normal jacket, one at each side and maybe one at the back.
These microphones are connected to an arduino (sort of computer chip) which is connected to two up to three small 'wave' devices, who are also placed at the left and right side, and maybe one at the back.
When the micrphones receive a noise that is loud enough (the trigger value can be changed by an simple small controller, for example very crowded places) the computer chip sends an signal to the wave device corresponding to the side of where the sound came from, which will start to vibrate.
The whole idea behind this is to enable deaf people to make some use of sound, by getting alarmed in time in for example when an car aproaches, or when some one is asking a question/talking to a deaf person which he might normally not notice. A few more examples can be named, but I hope you get the concept.
Now my question is the following: What do you think of such an concept? Do you have something that you think would also fit in great? New idea's, addition, feature's, name it. All feedback is welcome!
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Together with some fellow students we're trying to create a new device,
which is aimed to help people who suffer from being fully deaf or near deaf.
It's just an school project, so we have an low budget, but we are still trying to make the first prototype as good as possible.
The current concept is to implement two to three small microphones into an normal jacket, one at each side and maybe one at the back.
These microphones are connected to an arduino (sort of computer chip) which is connected to two up to three small 'wave' devices, who are also placed at the left and right side, and maybe one at the back.
When the micrphones receive a noise that is loud enough (the trigger value can be changed by an simple small controller, for example very crowded places) the computer chip sends an signal to the wave device corresponding to the side of where the sound came from, which will start to vibrate.
The whole idea behind this is to enable deaf people to make some use of sound, by getting alarmed in time in for example when an car aproaches, or when some one is asking a question/talking to a deaf person which he might normally not notice. A few more examples can be named, but I hope you get the concept.
Now my question is the following: What do you think of such an concept? Do you have something that you think would also fit in great? New idea's, addition, feature's, name it. All feedback is welcome!
/walloftext
