Week 3 - Sketch One Optic Blast

For this week our team have decided on to creating a optic visor which is suppose to relate to the visual impaired.

At first the idea was more of a children's toy to relate to X-Men, Cyclops's optic visor. Where it can simulate the character's attacks. However, it doesn't seem to possess any sort of purpose other than being a children's toy or a cosplay prop.

Back to the visually impaired relation, a possible direction to take this is to use this as a communication tool for the visually impaired. Similar to a white cane, it can be used to identity those who are blind or legally blind, perhaps give signals to them to help them around their environment.

The original attempt at this idea was to use infrared proximity sensors to identify objects around the user, and by using the strength of the light to judge whether the object is close or not. However do to technical issues, our team was unable to do that. Also only those who are legally blind (not completely blind) can use this optic visor as the user will still need his/her perception of light.

Instead we're going to use this optic visor to help communicate to the outside world. The user will be a visually impaired to person. The maximum level of blindness is "unable to see, but still can sense light intensity".
It will feature the following:
1. Identify day and night..., as a blind person, you are unable to tell whether or not people can see you, thus, by using a light sensor, when the surrounding become dark, the LED will constantly emit light, thus allowing others to see you.
2. Communicate by Morse code: On the side of the visor will be at least 2 buttons which causes the LED on the visor to blink. The long blinks are lines, and the short blinks are dots. The most unique way for this to work is that the blind person is trying to communicate with a deaf person.

3. This feature is currently unclear, but it will have something to do with acknowledgment.


here are some of the concept work;