Comments on: #2051: Carpetrack http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/2012/07/26/2051-carpetrack/ Invention Of The Day Sat, 18 May 2013 13:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Patrick http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/2012/07/26/2051-carpetrack/comment-page-1/#comment-1006387 Patrick Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:00:23 +0000 http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/?p=14320#comment-1006387 Oh yes, good one. I like the idea of a personalised, local friction coefficient. It would make sense to have high roughness during acceleration and reduced roughness when at maximal speed.

]]> By: Rob Tillaart http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/2012/07/26/2051-carpetrack/comment-page-1/#comment-1006317 Rob Tillaart Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:06:16 +0000 http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/?p=14320#comment-1006317 Why not making a carpet that can be hardened by applying a certain voltage? Due to the voltage the material get stiffer as “muscles” in the carpet contract. That allows you to change the behavior of the carpet immediately. Because the voltage can be regulated any level of stiffness (to certain extent) can be created.

But that’s not all. Add an addressing scheme and some basic electronics and one can make some parts jumpier and other stiffer.
Better still, give the runners an RFID with their personal settings and the carpet under their shoes instantaneously change to their presets!

this would also be usefull for carpets in the living room to change between summer (barefoot-> soft) and winter (shoes-> harder) feeling …

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