Prototype Development Tools
Equipment
- Solidoodle 3D printer
Allows for 3D printing of items out of ABS plastic for designing specialised components as needed
- Vacuum mould machine (denture size)
Small lightweight plastic formed devices made based on negative imprint
- Thermoplastics
- Laser engraver
- CNC machine
Electronics Lab
Complete setup with oscilloscope, laboratory power supply, multimeters, electronic test equipment, heat guns, soldering station, breadboards and an array of containment units.
Simulation Technology
Motion capture
Research-grade gold-standard in optical measurement for motion capture systems
Head Mounted Display (see Virtual Reality Lab)
Leading next-generation virtual reality headset for 3D gaming
- Cy-visor
- Microvision Nomad (retinal scanning display)
Seated Simulators
- Smart Car shell (see Driving Simulation Lab)
- CKAS “W” series Hexapod (see Hexapod Lab)
A motion base allowing 6-degrees-of-freedom to simulate driving and flight conditions.
Controllers
- PC
- Infra-red remotes
- Razer Hydra : first generation PC motion sensing controllers
- Joysticks
- Generic PC handheld controllers
- Flight simulator
- Yoke (2)
- Pedals
- Quadrant
- Joystick & throttle
- Driving simulator
- Steering Wheels (3)
- Gear Select box
- Pedals (3)
Physiological Instruments
Inertial measurement units
- XSens wireless motion tracker
- Watson Triaxial Angular Rate sensor
- Analog triaxial inertial recorder
- CHR-6DM : Attitude and heading reference system
- Vector Nav VN100 : miniature high performance inertial measurement unit
- YO?S 3 space: OEM (3) & USB (1)
- Wireless triaxial Z star (2)
- Actical activitity monitor
Biofeedback devices
Measures heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, posture and activity of participants in a study.
- Polar watches, straps and USB interfaces
- Chronos program watch
- Nike iPod sensor
Stimulators
- Galvanic Stimulators: Programmable (2) & Computer controlled (8)
- Choloric stimulus devices
- Otoscope stimulus devices
- Subjective visual vertical stimulus devices
- vEMP stimulus devices
- Improvise
- TENS Unit
Other
- Blood Alcohol Level measurement units
- Blood Pressure Monitor
- Electronic Inclinometer
- Nintendo Wii board : used for posturography, see below.
SHFR developed devices
Developed to use motion and pressure data from a commercial Nintendo Wii Board and transmits this information in real time to an iOS device
This device measures the length of every stride taken over a period of up to 24 hours, and can detect episodes of freezing of gait
These glasses sample at a rate of 360 fps. Depending on which version of the glasses are used, they can measure eye position (horizontal and vertical), eye velocity, blink rate and pupil diameter.
Vision & Visual Devices
Testing Devices
- Colour filters
- Infra-red filters
- Persistence of vision gadgets
- Goldmann perimeter
Systematic measurement of range of peripheral vision
Recording devices
- Cameras
- Dash cams (2)
- LCD monitor (2)
- Mini DVR (30 different types)
- USB web cameras
- Sony eye
- Infra-red
- Lipstick
- CCTV DVR
- Circuit board (100 lenses)
- Digital Video Recorders
- ARCHOS 404s (6)
- ARCHOS 405 (1)
- Lipstick recorders (4)
- Analogue-video cameras – colour and monotone (50)
- Flywire cameras (20)
- Handycams
- Other (7)
Miscellaneous
Recorders
- GPS devices and loggers (5) ranging from small fingernail sized to car GPS units
- Ultrasonic range finder
- Humidity logger
- Timers
- Scales
- Stopwatches
- Temperature probes
- Spirit levels
- Logitech 6DOF tracker
- Response trigger button boxes
Small PC units
- Pocket PCs
- OQO – world’s smallest laptop
- MAC Lab 8 – GSR, biolamps, autonomic function
Motors and Controllers
- Stepper
- Servo
- Synchronous
- EDC RC servo
Sound equipment
- Speakers
- Headphones
- Microphones
Lighting
- Floodlights
- Lasers
- Laser galvos (3)
- Green/red
- High powered
- Head-mounted (5)
- Laser turret ports