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A new jacket by Lynne Bruning aids the visually impaired with LilyPad.
This jacket helps the wearer detect potentially harmful obstructions at
the torso level. The sonar garment is a wonderful example of assistive
clothing. Checkout Lynne's Instructable for more info.
Great work, looks beautiful. Looks like we've been working on similar things (by the way, my prototype is also done with arduino - ATiny13 and Atmega8):
http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/HapticRadar/index-e.html
(I've been buying the Arduino components from Sparkfun by the way ;)
Check this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RamTCQmnT_w&feature=channel_page