Post Meeting Thoughts

Had a brief meeting with Diefenbach today to basically ask if this idea was headed in the realm of possible and if so, direction I could take with research.

Good news! It is possible! And he gave me some good ideas where to wander. First off, from how I explained it, I would need some sort of technology to have connect to the engine to make this phantom limb move. This is if I want to do this without controllers, which is a whole other thing. Diefenbach suggested the use of a kinect sensor for a hands free experience, or use a Hololens if I wanted to do this in AR. I'm still leaning towards a VR experience, and also leaning towards using the Optitrack system somehow.

Anyway, back to the brain sensor thing. Drexel has some basic sensors, but now that I'm writing this, I don't know if I need these. In any case, I think looking into these sort of research papers may bring me some ideas. I recall from this past SIGGRAPH that there was a paper/poster submitted for a robotic tail. I'm going to look into that first.


So the general deliverable for this class would be showing off demos of the tech I'd be using. So say, 2-3 week sprints of researching how to use X technology. Just to show that I can learn it, or if not, what it would take to develop this project further. At the moment, this is sounding like a project I could get behind, which makes me very happy. I've been thinking that a Master's degree isn't for me, but I might stick around just to try to fool my brain into thinking I have wings.

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