{"id":38784,"date":"2016-11-14T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=38784"},"modified":"2016-11-14T20:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:08:32","slug":"monday-night-simon-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/11\/14\/monday-night-simon-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; simon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My freind Simon and his wife Sian came to visit us at work inMunuch. Simon is a blind ultramarathon runner I met at an IBM conference wearler this year. It was really great hosting the two of htem here today. My freinds John, David and I had worked for several hours yesterday workign an ultrasonic obstacle avoidance prototype yesteray and we were eager to have simon try it out. He&#8217;s trying to figure out a way to run a marthon like boston or NYC without a guide.. and he needs a way to &#8216;see&#8217; other poeple in his path<\/p>\n<p>the device is just a simple maxbotic ultrasonic rangefinder attached to a partical photon all on a velcro strap taht attached to simns chest. . Its controlled\u00a0\u00a0via a mobile app we created in BLYNK. it works surprisingly well &#8230; As you get within a threshold distance it starts to vibrate.. the closer an obsitcal comes, the fasterit vibrates.. .. here&#8217;s simon walkign around he office without hitting things.. it needs to be a little faster.. and a little more aggressive in the vibration.. overall.not bad for an initial prototype<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0151.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0154.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0147.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0146.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>simon is pretty amazing.. ..so is Sian. they are both writing books.. his is about beig a blind runner pushing the bounds of techology.. hers is a kids book about bears..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m really glad to get to know them both !<\/p>\n<p>Gotta sleep now..<\/p>\n<p>night all,nightsam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My freind Simon and his wife Sian came to visit us at work inMunuch. Simon is a blind ultramarathon runner I met at an IBM conference wearler this year. It was really great hosting the two of htem here today. My freinds John, David and I had worked for several hours yesterday workign an ultrasonic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/11\/14\/monday-night-simon-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; simon says<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38817,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38784\/revisions\/38817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}