{"id":4695,"date":"2014-09-22T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2014-09-22T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:22:29","slug":"embedded-wearable-homing-device-by-chris-williamson-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/?p=4695","title":{"rendered":"Embedded + Wearable: &#8220;Homing Device&#8221; by Chris Williamson (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt1.jpg\" alt=\"homebelt1\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt1-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4697\" src=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt2.jpg\" alt=\"homebelt2\" width=\"500\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/homebelt2-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;Homing Device&#8221; is a belt containing a series of small vibration motors which allow it to give a strong directional sense to the wearer by vibrating whichever motor is pointing in a particular direction.\u00a0 This means the belt can essentially act as a persistent compass, its direction available to the user at all times, even unconsciously.\u00a0 Rather than pointing north like a normal compass, however, the user programs it with the location of their hometown and it always points there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;Homing Device&#8221; is a belt containing a series of small vibration motors which allow it to give a strong directional sense to the wearer by vibrating whichever motor is pointing in a particular direction.\u00a0 This means the belt can essentially act as a persistent compass, its direction available to the user at all times, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,5,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[100],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3_embedded-and-wearable","category-assignment","category-sensors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2014fall2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}