Skin Developer Kit

How the TACTIGON Skin Developer Kit Idea was born

From a request of a child:

“Dad, can you build me a controller to command a robot? I want to be like Iron Man!” was the question.

The first ten seconds of embarrassment have been supplanted by dad’s pride in the past of a geek.

The shopping list: many shields, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, Bluetooth.

Low energies are needed. There are many technologies on the market, but none contains all of them, and above all, none fits the need for a procedure that is not too complicated.

“I wanted to make a simple, small and fashionable design device. I wanted it to be used at work and home to play with my daughter,” Massimiliano Bellino.

“I designed a device that is easy to put on and take off, but a clothespin inspired me because this shape allows you to wear T-Skin very quickly and use it immediately. In addition, the ergonomic shape allows you to use four fingers as if you were playing the guitar or even to use two devices (right hand and left hand) for more advanced applications “.

Presentation Controller for PowerPoint

Presentation Controller for PowerPoint with The Tactigon

Have you ever wondered how to control your PowerPoint presentation more naturally than those little TV remote-like controllers? Well, we’ve got you covered! Here’s how you can use the Tactigon Skin as a PowerPoint controller with gesture control and tools support. You can go through slides, zoom in and out, pan into zoomed slides, and use presentation tools such as the laser pointer and the pen.

With the Tactigon Skin, you can captivate your audience during your next presentation. If you want, you could integrate the range extender shown in the previous article so you can navigate through slides even in a big crowded presentation room!


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Humanoid Robots will Fill Public Service Positions Throughout the World

As time goes by, we will be seeing highly intelligent Humanoid Robots and Autonomous Machines filling public service positions throughout the world, operating under rules to keep humans safe, and in the future, be taught to protect and even save lives, improving our overall quality of life, or maybe not, because it all depends how we program them. Despite limited resources, including semiconductors, AI, and financial difficulties, our limitless desire for robotics will force us to investigate the possibilities of designing human-like robots for all areas, from farming to service industries, medical, health and research, education, entertainment, and combat. With the help of robots and creative minds, we will discover more as we move forward.

With open-source codes developed by human programmers or robots, you can teach your robot higher-level tasks, including anything from karate to doing the dishes to teaching it how to sing or dance. Wi-Fi will also affect their remote access; firewalls and antivirus apps will be available to protect your precious robot from unwanted remote breaches.

Today’s only challenge with advanced Humanoid Robotics is determining how strongly we can design them for pre-recorded or instant responses. Can they fully decode human speech and surrounding sounds with their voice recognition, regardless of all accents, to understand human perception and cognition? Maybe not yet. How can we help them to understand anger or calmness? A physical punch on a robot or the stress level in our voice and body language, for example, has to be translated into a form for them to recognize with codes and sensors. Robots are currently and will in the future be taught to protect and even save lives, improving our overall quality of life. They will be walking on the ground, swimming in the oceans, and flying with a combination of available drones. It is a phenomenon, an important one, not to miss out on.