A Text-to-Tactile-Morse system.
"From that moment, I understood the direct pathway [..] to freedom."
To experimentally survey the viability of relegating content consumption to passive, and often non-primary, focus through sensory touch as emergent tasks tap into and out of sensory bandwidth (i.e., sight, hearing, and active touch).
This is envisioned to be accomplished with a small, vibrating motor disc affixed inconspicuously to the user's skin (hand, waistline, or where choose you) transmitting textual data by rhythmic, Morse code-keyed pulsations.
Prototyping efforts and proofs of concept may aim to implement support for:
- unencumbered eBook formats (for discreet Dark Arts attainment, a la Frederick Douglass)
- submission-discussion forums (for always-on always-connectedness, a la
your tween-aged loved ones, I meanthe Borg Collective..nevermind.)
Milestones beyond proof-of-concept
- transcribed material (i.e., documentaries and podcasts)
- encumbered standards (eBooks and such), via commercial pursuits and licensing arrangements
- pulling live updates from monitored channels (RSS, alerting policies)
- your favorite blog, newsletter, or other publishing platform
- doomscrolling (doomtouching?)
- STM
- DRV2605L Haptic Motor Controller
- Vibrating motor disc
- Bluetooth LE module, if not built in
- Some single-board computer of sorts
- Adafruit
- STM
- Pi Zero
- hackable or reverse-engineered adult toy
- general-purpose IO for mobile devices (texting, $#!+posting)
- further IO augmentation with effects and intensity (menu/state navigation)
- passive consumption of advertisments (eek!)