It isn’t the belt. That’s kind of the point. The LLR-1 belt is still a design on paper. But this week, some of its core ideas became something I can actually feel: an iPhone app that plays versions of the belt’s cues through the phone’s vibration motor, so I can start testing the idea before…

How I searched, what I found, and why being wrong four times made the project better. You can find my published literature review HERE and the associated bibliography HERE. When I started this review, I thought I had a pretty simple story: nobody had used haptic guidance to help a blind runner navigate at running…

The plan behind the research, and why it’s built to change as I go. My advisor gave me an instruction a little while back that sounded, on the surface, like a delay: more research before you design anything. No prototype yet. No soldering. Research first. So this post is that instruction turned into an actual…