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Post by benj111 »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #105
viggity wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drive a Chevy Suburban (6 kids), its a huge car and can be hard to see my surroundings. When I'm backing out of a parking spot, it will vibrate the left or right side of my seat if a car is coming from the appropriate direction. It'll also do the same if it senses you're drifting into another lane or if you are changing lanes purposefully (blinker on) and someone is in my blindspot. It is extremely convenient

My math teacher would say that the wise Indian parks his horses the direction of escape. Why not back into the parking spot and pull out forward? The overreliance on tech is frightening.

Another low tech way is just to send the kids to watch.

Although this assumes you have a massive car for an actual reason.

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Post by bigiain »

HarryHirsch wrote: post #114
shagie wrote: post #113

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This depends on the law in jurisdiction. For example... https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/pompanobeach/latest/po... > In all spaces marked for city administered public parking within the city, all vehicles shall be parked with the front end of the vehicle facing into the space provided for parking. It shall be unlawful for any person to back any vehicle into such parking space. No person shall stand or park a veh…

The law discouraging safe driving practice. I don't... even...

I think nose in for 45 degree parking spots makes sense.

There's probably a practicality argument to be made for 90 degree parking to be nose in, because I think it probably results in less blocking of the road is drivers are forced to do the "easier/quicker" front first drive into a spot when arriving avoiding extended time doing "complicated reversing manoeuvres" while other people are trying to get past, and are forced to wait in the parking spot for a big enough gap in traffic (or another driver wanting the spot) before backing out.

Re: North Paw

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Post by bigiain »

Wistar wrote: post #108
isaacdl wrote: post #19

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I wouldn't call it superhuman, but it definitely improves it a lot. I think it's helped in general with my sense of direction, but it's a lot less noticeable in an unfamiliar place (if I'm not wearing it). If I start in a familiar place, then go into somewhere unfamiliar, like a new building, my ability to keep track of cardinal directions is significantly better, which helps keep me oriented to e.g. find my way out…

I was not good at sensing direction until I learned to fly. After I had been flying a year or two, my intuitive sense of direction on the ground became fairly keen, even when I moved to another state or even to Europe. There are certain places that trip up my sense of direction, especially Spokane, WA. In that city, south feels west to me, and strongly so. Weird.

I have a really good sense of direction.

In the southern hemisphere.

When I travel in the US your "sun in the south at midday" _really_ messes things up.

And when I'm in London and there's no detectable angle to the sun through the clouds, and all medium distance travel happens on the underground, I'm even more completely lost. I have friends in Maida Vale, Edgeware Rd and Marylebone , and I _know_ they're all within walking distance, but there's no way I could dead reckon my way from one to the other. All I know is how to get from there right tube station exit to their houses or nearest pub/cafe...

Re: North Paw

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Post by unwind »

kelnos wrote: post #52
mabbo wrote: post #2

> As you might have guessed by the long period with no posting, Sensebridge is out of business. We’ve been out of stock on Northpaw Kits since late 2016; we do not have plans to make more kits.

On their downloads page[0] it looks like they have CAD files for the board and a BOM for the components. Probably wouldn't be too hard (or expensive) to have a few boards fabricated by PCBWay or OSHPark. I imagine the enclosure could be 3D printed, though I don't see any CAD files for that. And not sure how easy it'd be to source the other components, especially with all the component shortages these days. But I imag…

The board seems to be 100x80 mm and two layers.

The low-cost services don't seem able to directly eat Eagle-format files, so I could only price it on Eurocircuits [1] where it came out to €50+ which seems like a lot.

Strange for an open project to publish in a proprietary format.

[1]: https://be.eurocircuits.com

Re: North Paw

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Post by tao_oat »

aryamaan wrote: post #94
maliker wrote: post #4

Every time I read about folks surgically implanting stuff like this [1] I think... surely just wearing it would be better? [1] https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/north-sense-cybernetic-i...

Where are they being sold? Could not find them at the company's website.

IIRC they discontinued them in favor of the sentero, which just straps onto your arm with velcro (but it looks like they also aren't selling that at the moment).

Re: North Paw

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Post by ok_dad »

roughly wrote: post #86
ok_dad wrote: post #67

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In Hawaii people still use "mauka" (towards the mountains) and "makai" (towards the ocean) to describe where they are, so you might say, "it's on the makai side of downtown," to describe an area or, "go mauka from the intersection" to indicate a directional vector. They also use "windward" and "leeward" to describe sides of the island sometimes, and will give you directions from local landmarks (Zippy's is a good one…

There was an article posted here not too long ago which talked about decoding an old Polynesian map, which the sailors used to navigate between islands in the pacific, and it turned out to be similarly situational - the map wasn’t useful for telling objectively how far you were from one place to another, but it was very useful for navigating from one spot to another based on references to what you could see. I’ve men…

Yea, I tried to find that article but couldn’t!

Re: North Paw

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Post by jmiskovic »

godelski wrote: post #61
ASalazarMX wrote: post #6

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> Because of the plasticity of the brain, it has been shown that most wearers gain a new sense of absolute direction, giving them a superhuman ability to navigate their surroundings. So you would say that this quote isn't exaggeration?

I haven't used a device like this, but I don't think this is exaggeration. It is well known in linguistics that speakers of languages that use absolute directions are better at determining where north is. People that use the chime feature on their watches to indicate every hour also tend to have a better sense of time. It is also a successful tool for people trying to lucid dream (the "reality checks" are similar in…

GPS in map rotating mode is terrible for spatial awareness. I always keep it in fixed north-upwards mode and I found it does wonders for both navigating streets quickly and for getting to know the layout of wider area.

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Post by throw0101c »

blamazon wrote: post #91
TrueGeek wrote: post #64

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I ride a bike with a Garmin radar detector that tells me when a car is behind me. Adding a vibration motor to it would be neat.

Question - why is either of those options better than a mirror?

>> I ride a bike […] behind me.

> Question - why is either of those options better than a mirror?

Where are you going to put a rearview mirror on a {bicycle?, motorcycle?}? Sure you can have mirrors for the sides for lane changes, but behind you?

Re: North Paw

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Post by throw0101c »

shagie wrote: post #113
HarryHirsch wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My math teacher would say that the wise Indian parks his horses the direction of escape. Why not back into the parking spot and pull out forward? The overreliance on tech is frightening.

This depends on the law in jurisdiction. For example... https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/pompanobeach/latest/po... > In all spaces marked for city administered public parking within the city, all vehicles shall be parked with the front end of the vehicle facing into the space provided for parking. It shall be unlawful for any person to back any vehicle into such parking space. No person shall stand or park a veh…

> […] all vehicles shall be parked with the front end of the vehicle facing into the space provided for parking.

Is there a particular rationale for this rule?

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