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Brainstorming applications of knowing your angle relative to a point source: - adaptive sports for visually impaired players like beep baseball? - robot swarm
by zharknado 1y ago
Brainstorming applications of knowing your angle relative to a point source:
- adaptive sports for visually impaired players like beep baseball?
- robot swarm members knowing their relative 2d position with a single microphone? (frequency for angle, amplitude for distance)
- a cheap, durable way for human workers to track the rotation cadence of slowly rotating machinery?
- wahern 1y agoReminds me of Ben Underwood, the blind kid who used echo location around the house, playing basketball, riding his bike around the neighborhood, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnH7AIwhpik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnH7AIwhpik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Ben_Underwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Ben_Underwo...
- literalAardvark 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation Bloody hell, I can't do all that... I wonder how they discovered that "clicking" works, seems so counterintuitive to discover. Though it's fair that I don't spend anywhere near that much time listening carefully and noticing how sharp sounds reflect.
- viraptor 1y ago> I wonder how they discovered that "clicking" works I won't think it's they unexpected - have a walk a forest with loud insects. You'll hear a lot of interesting noises shaped a lot by what you stand near to. Large trees especially change how you hear things quite a lot.
- xattt 1y agoBefore practical applications, my first thought was a grade-school science fair entry. It’s novel enough for judges not to have seen it for a couple of years.