I use a wheelchair and have partially disabled hands and arms from a spinal cord injury (quadriplegia/hemiplegia,whatever).
I saw this and got super excited to try to use it as a means to signal software to help me actuate the intensity of my TIG torch welder, especially after the video on their site showing such esoteric uses as a couple using it to control their sex vibrator and other kind of 'weird' lifestyle uses.
I emailed them to be a part of the beta, they said essentially "Eh, no, that reason isn't that great -- but we'll put you on the wait list for 1000 bucks for commercial units."
Eh, no. So I bought a cheap sip/puff switch for use with a power wheelchair, use it as a binary switch along with an arduino, and the welder itself is set to pulse/ramp itself to take care of the gradual application.
It works, but I sure wish I could have had the more finite control -- but i'll wait until someone doesn't gouge me for the work. I'm not into the whole medical premium thing.
If anyone else is in that situation I suggest they look at low voltage membrane switches with an isolated carrier or any of the various sip/puff devices out there that have dwindled in cost due to volume and time. No, that doesn't offer the same capability -- but maybe you don't need it to.
Ben over at Applied Science did a great video of his quest to build an analog bite sensor for a musician. It would be easy to adapt it to work as a TIG controller.
I saw this and got super excited to try to use it as a means to signal software to help me actuate the intensity of my TIG torch welder, especially after the video on their site showing such esoteric uses as a couple using it to control their sex vibrator and other kind of 'weird' lifestyle uses.
I emailed them to be a part of the beta, they said essentially "Eh, no, that reason isn't that great -- but we'll put you on the wait list for 1000 bucks for commercial units."
Eh, no. So I bought a cheap sip/puff switch for use with a power wheelchair, use it as a binary switch along with an arduino, and the welder itself is set to pulse/ramp itself to take care of the gradual application.
It works, but I sure wish I could have had the more finite control -- but i'll wait until someone doesn't gouge me for the work. I'm not into the whole medical premium thing.
If anyone else is in that situation I suggest they look at low voltage membrane switches with an isolated carrier or any of the various sip/puff devices out there that have dwindled in cost due to volume and time. No, that doesn't offer the same capability -- but maybe you don't need it to.