But the first step toward quitting something like that is to become cognizant of just how often you do it. Sometimes faces itch, especially during allergy season. Let’s face it - people are gonna touch their faces. They have made a notable appearance as a DEF CON badge though.Ĭontinue reading “The Trouble With Tamagotchis…” → Posted in Toy Hacks Tagged Circuit Playground Express, tamagotchi, tribble Given the popularity of Star Trek TOS among Hackaday readers perhaps it’s surprising that we don’t see more Tribble related projects. We wonder whether a small resistive heater to give it a body temperature would complete its appeal as a virtual pet. It’s quite cute as you can see in the Twitter video below, and fortunately it won’t multiply and fill up your starship. After a random time with no attention it “cries”, and its owner strokes it, after which it responds with a purring vibration. Inside the ball of fake fur is an Adafruit Circuit Playground with a capacitive touch pad and a haptic motor. has done something about this with her Tamagotchi-style Tribble, an anthropomorphic ball of fluff that demands attention and purrs when it receives some. Fortunately it had a reset button on the back through which it could be resuscitated, but even so it lacked a satisfying tactile experience. The must-have toy of a couple of decades ago was the Tamagotchi, a virtual pet in an LCD screen on a keyring, that demanded your attention and which would die were you to neglect it. Video after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Building A Mask To Induce Lucid Dreaming” → Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged Circuit Playground Express, lucid dream, lucid dreaming We’ve seen others do similar work before, and even a recent Hackaday Prize entry. doesn’t report the success rate at using the mask, but we’d love to know more about how well the mask works. This allows them to realise they are dreaming, and thus enter a conscious, lucid state. Once the user is in the correct state, the mask then flashes LEDs which are intended to be visible to the wearer while dreaming. The accelerometer hardware was then used to detect if the wearer was still, indicating they are indeed fully asleep. used the onboard IR proximity sensor on the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express to pull this off. This is commonly done with an infrared eye tracker, which detects the rapid twitching of the eye. To induce lucid dreaming, the aim is to first detect that the mask wearer is in REM sleep. decided to have a go at building his own, inspired by designs from the 1990s. Over the years, various devices have been used to generate these dream states more reliably. Lucid dreams are ones in which the individual is conscious or semi-conscious in the dream state, and may be able to control the dream environment.
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While dreams are generally thought of as the unconscious wanderings of the mind, that’s not the full story.
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