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TI’s Wireless Haptic Development Kit is Industry’s First Haptic + Bluetooth Kit

Enables easy tactile feedback prototyping in a wide range of applications

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry’s first wireless haptic development kit, providing system designers with a fast and convenient way to prototype eccentric rotating mass (ERM) motor and linear resonant actuator (LRA) haptic effects.

Using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and a free iOS app, the Haptic Bluetooth Kit (DRV2605EVM-BT) enables designers to create haptic sequences and LED patterns for tactile feedback, notifications and alerts from a pre-licensed library of more than a hundred distinct haptic effects, eliminating wires and the need to design haptic waveforms. For more information or to order the Haptic Bluetooth Kit, visit www.ti.com/drv2605evm-bt-pr.

System designers can use the Haptic Bluetooth Kit to select and test haptic effects from the Immersion-licensed library for virtually any touch-enabled application, from wearables and portable medical equipment to human machine interface (HMI) panels and augmented reality.

The Haptic Bluetooth Kit (DRV2605EVM-CT) can be purchased today for US$99. The free iOS app is available on the Apple App Store.

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