DataTouch - Tactile Text Rendering: I built a device that takes text and presents it to the five fingertips, turning the information into solenoid actuations accessible to the sense of touch. Coupled with software I wrote, this system would allow a blind and deaf person to have an internet chat.

• My course webpage for this project
• How I turned it into an octopus for a California Bay Area scavenger-hunt clue.
• An art installation that I made using the DataTouch for a show at the SPACE gallery in Portland, Maine.