Ultrasonic Batgoggles

Step 14 Experience Echolocation

Plug in a battery put the enclosure in your pocket and explore! The close you get to objects in your line of sight, the faster it beeps, the further you get, the slower it beeps.

Please do not wear these in hazardous environments or in traffic! These goggles are for educational purposes only and meant for controlled environments since they are intended to block your peripheral vision and regular vision so you are more reliant on auditory cues.

I am not responsible for any injuries as a result of wearing these goggles! Thanks!

Since this is based on Arduino, you could easily add a Zigbee or blueSMIRF module to interfaces these with computers wirelessly. Future work might be adding a dial to adjust the sensitivity and adding a on/off switch.

Comments

[HuggyBear]

This is exactly the same thing they use for backing up warnings on cars: the closer the car gets to the object the faster the pulse becomes. Things like this that seem useless, usually have practical applications.

[killerjackalope]

Errr blind people... Umm using them in applications where you can't see whats going on like plumbing and working with stuff in walls, these would be cheaper to manufacture that fibre optic micro cameras...

[-Aj-]

(fibre's whats in your diet ;) ) fiber optic micro cameras are AWESOME!! who cares about the cost! BWAAA

[killerjackalope]

They're not really they're rubbish compared to the wireless spy cams that are almost as compact and much better resolutions, that and you can put them anywhere, I used to know a guy that owned a shop that did all that stuff, we put spy cameras in the most random objects and places just to see if it could be done, the best was adding it to an old slr with the innards gutted to repair another one...

[-Aj-]

lol ok. yeah ive got a small 2.4 ghz wireless camera with a res of 640x480 (standard tv res) its only the size of a 9v battery. range of 500m (1500ft) los. Could make it smaller if i stripped off the case.

[killerjackalope]

Those are sweet and you can get higher quality ones aswell, they're a great thing for movings stuff and the likes of parachuting and cycling videos...