Active PinScreen is a new tactile feedback technique, that applies localised stimuli on multiple fingers with fine spatial and temporal resolution. It uses an array of solenoid-actuated magnetic pins with millimetre scale form-factor which could be deployed for back-of-device handheld use without instrumenting the user.
See the toolkit website and research project website for more details and related work.
To build your own Active PinScreen, the following instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live Active PinScreen.
As well as presenting a detailed description of the prototype, we provide the potential design configurations and the applications of Active PinScreen.
- Prototype
- Circuit layouts & microcontroller code
- Examples of Android App source code see: TacCar, TacPacMan and TacPinao.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
The Active PinScreen's prototype designs, circuit layouts, microcontroller code and accompanying Android app source code are all released.
- FitLab
- Swansea University
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