May 29 2008DIY: Make Your Own Ultrasonic Batgoggles
Ever wanted to be a bat boy? Me too, but the local minor league team said I couldn't because of my club foot. So I'm going to have to settle for making my own ultrasonic batgoggles (not to be confused with lobster-vision).
What you see above is a homegrown device that enables humans to discover how bats must feel when using echolocation in order to judge how far away certain objects are. The main components are an Arduino microcontroller clone, Devantech ultrasonic sensor and a set of welding goggles.
Basically you can't see anything because of the welding goggles and the ultrasonic sensor controls audio feedback to let you know how far away something in your line of sight is (fast beeps for something close, slower for further away).
Awesome, I just built a pair and am about to give them a go. Oh wait:
Please do not wear these in hazardous environments or in traffic! These goggles are for educational purposes only and meant for controlled environments since they are intended to block your peripheral vision and regular vision so you are more reliant on auditory cues.
Ha, there's never any traffic on my street -- time to take these suckers for a spin in my girlfriend's car!
UPDATE: In retrospect they would have worked better had I busted out the windshield. Seriously though, I think a Buick is just what the neighbor's kitchen needed.
Video of the goggles in action and a link to the instructables page, after the jump.
Ultrasonic Batgooggles [instructables]
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DIYer instructs Ultrasonic Batgoggles, doles out instructions [engadget]
Thanks Shawn, you any good at threatening neighbors to not sue?
Reader Comments
1. Peter - May 29, 2008 2:13 PM
Cool. At least doesn't have to worry about being laughed at.
2. boredom - May 29, 2008 2:18 PM
now that's just stupid, if it had a little DareDevil type display on it then it would be awesome but just beeping it stupid.
3. prewife - May 29, 2008 2:20 PM
Very cool. I think that is the contraption I was wearing when I said "marry me" to my http://prewife.com
4. guate6 - May 29, 2008 3:45 PM
The goggles are hyper-polarized, so he can't see anything, fine. But the whole beeping thing...um, yeah cars nowadays have them in front and back so you don't hit things. They sell aftermarket ones that do the same thing but look less...um...like this.
5. poop - May 29, 2008 11:51 PM
ah ghadd! this is about as bad as www.lemonparty.org
6. strznhvnz - May 30, 2008 12:41 AM
there is actually a blind boy that uses clicks with his tongue to see things like a real batboy way cooler than those goggle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA&feature=related
7. Popadopolis - May 31, 2008 4:31 PM
Sometimes when masturbating too much makes me lose my vision, I just clap loudly and listen for echoes in my house so I can find the bathroom. Then once I've found the bathroom, I masturbate in the shower.
It's a vicious circle.
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Sometimes when masturbating too much makes me lose my vision, I just clap loudly and listen for echoes in my house so I can find the bathroom. Then once I've found the bathroom, I masturbate in the shower.
9. penis enlargement - October 6, 2009 7:55 AM
here is something to learn here: