The intent of the development kit is give the application developer the basic tools necessary to configure and capture motion from the widest possible range of sources.
This first version will be no larger than a small cigar box and designed to be strapped to the back or chest of a human or to the back of a horse or other quadruped.
Although it will support direct-connect streams, either through Bluetooth or USB, it is assumed that most applications will want to take advantage of its portability and capture data on a flash drive for later analysis.
Our first model will be best suited to full body and limb motion capture for humans and larger animals. Smaller sizes suitable for digital gloves or smaller animals such as cats and rodents and waterproof versions for capturing swimming or aquatic animals are easily possible but will be more expensive.
HARDWARE
Base Unit
CPU
phase comparator
A/D converter – <14/16/24> bit resolution
Power
USB
Battery with minimum 2 hr. recording life
USB Flash Storage port for up to 32 Gigabytes
USB to host direct connect
Bluetooth wireless to host connect
Transmitter
support for standard frequencies in ISM range
support for 4 addressable antennas
4 heavy-duty 4' coax transmit signal antenna wires
Receiver
Support for 20 addressable antennas (tracked targets)
20 10' lightweight receive signal antenna wires allowing 20 positons to be tracked on human and animal subjects
SOFTWARE
Base Firmware
Selectable parameters
Poll Rate
Target antenna selection and poll order
Transmitter antenna selection and poll order
Frequencies
Host
Device Support
USB direct connect stream
Flash storage read and stream
Bluetooth direct connect stream
Library based API allowing high-level abstracted read access
