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12 years ago
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In my continuing quest for a invisible interface for my fursuit I have come up with another possibility that can be used by others.
I was reading up on tongue mice and that lead to this idea.
In my earlier work with the tooth interface and magnets I made a version that actually went up and into my palate. No probs there as many false teeth plates do the same. However I trimmed that out in the final version.
However if I make a mould of my palate it would be easy to make a plate that could slide in there and be held by suction.
Now - if you try with your own tongue you can be VERY accurate in touching different area's of your mouth and the same with the palate plate.
The next questions was switches - I tried several different micro types but all of them required a fairly decent pressure that was not easy with the tongue muscles. Then I remember a WII Remote I took apart.
That relied on two conductive area of copper and a conductive pad that presses against them. The design is very good as there is little force required to push the pad down AND its is easy to make waterproof.
The conductive pads can be made with conductive paint.. Just out a circular blob and carefully cut a valley between them to get the two halves.
The circuit is also very simple - relying on Analog to Digital (A/D) a two wire circuit can be made so that each button changes a set voltage level going through the circuit. With luck one can get up to 5 buttons in the mouth.
As a feed back one can also add one to the little vibrator motors from the WII Remote (I used the conductive membranes from them. So with 3 wires and no electronics one has a perfectly function non intrusive mouth interface.
Make sure that you give everything a GOOD coat with nail polish or some other non-conductive sealer and you have it.
Piccies soon :)
Marc
I was reading up on tongue mice and that lead to this idea.
In my earlier work with the tooth interface and magnets I made a version that actually went up and into my palate. No probs there as many false teeth plates do the same. However I trimmed that out in the final version.
However if I make a mould of my palate it would be easy to make a plate that could slide in there and be held by suction.
Now - if you try with your own tongue you can be VERY accurate in touching different area's of your mouth and the same with the palate plate.
The next questions was switches - I tried several different micro types but all of them required a fairly decent pressure that was not easy with the tongue muscles. Then I remember a WII Remote I took apart.
That relied on two conductive area of copper and a conductive pad that presses against them. The design is very good as there is little force required to push the pad down AND its is easy to make waterproof.
The conductive pads can be made with conductive paint.. Just out a circular blob and carefully cut a valley between them to get the two halves.
The circuit is also very simple - relying on Analog to Digital (A/D) a two wire circuit can be made so that each button changes a set voltage level going through the circuit. With luck one can get up to 5 buttons in the mouth.
As a feed back one can also add one to the little vibrator motors from the WII Remote (I used the conductive membranes from them. So with 3 wires and no electronics one has a perfectly function non intrusive mouth interface.
Make sure that you give everything a GOOD coat with nail polish or some other non-conductive sealer and you have it.
Piccies soon :)
Marc
next step would be an HUD of sorts for temperatures inside the suit or something :P
With SpFx studios they always have crews on hand to man the R/C transmitters for the animatronics in suit. But when your one furry in his costume you don't have that luxury.
The interface that you have read about will enable me to activate pre-programmed animatronic sequences.
Have a look at http://marcwolf.org/gallery and you will se some of the things including the HUD :)
Take Care
Marc