The demo video of Tactonic Technologies' Tactonic Sensors was enlightening despite the flaws in the presentation itself. Their product is a malleable pressure sensor that has nodes spaced at 1/2", yet they only created a visualizer to see pressure patterns on the sensor. I agree that this has its uses--they mentioned medical and commercial applications, and one that comes to mind for me is determining the shape of and weight distribution across a person's foot--but they did not provide a set of functions for extracting raw data from the pressure sensor. The presentation also did not talk about the technical side of the sensors much, but this video seems to have been more of a sales pitch than a tech talk so that's understandable.
The first complaint above (not providing a means of extracting raw data) is the subject of my first investigation. I will be attempting to create a library that allows users to get raw data instead of images when they use the pressure sensors. The majority of the work will be in interpreting the provided source classes to see how they gather data.
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