Dear Wandmakers

while waiting at the dentist this morning, I thought about a number of things that could make the Kymera Wand even more interesting for customers.

Wand – Models:

• programmable model (use an arduino and processing to do the programming, usb interface)
• making you products hackable enables a big crowd of people to get creative and enables you to harvest ideas from them

Case Modding

• changeable shells/covers
• wood covers (ebony, elder, beech, …)
• stylistic covers (acryl, magnesium, …)
• a barebone version for putting into your own housings, e.g. Chris’ wands from dadcando.com (case modding)

Hardware Features

• glowing wands
• integrate bluetooth
• integrate laser pointer

Wand – Gestures:

• convert n-taps to numbers (1..10)
• convert n-tabs to repetitions of the next gesture great for channel hopping, fast volume increases, e.g. taps on top n-times, taps at side n*10-times repetition
• allow recording of sequences of gestures
• allow recording of sequences of ir signals (macros)
• switchable settings (e.g. by n-tap)
• long impulses, use wand as IR-pen for drawing

Accessories:

• USB Device that acts as keyboard and converts IR signals to keys (HID)
• buttons (for sticking on clothes) with ir receiver and LED / sound module , use these for games, using for instance arduino lillypads for those, which react with light and/or sound to impulses

Applications:

• control iRobot Roomba
• digital picture frames
• Lego NXT
• Toys (?)
• device games for the wands (e.g. duels with the buttons above, cast spells and shields of different types)

Happy wandmaking

Michael