I have been busy researching and figuring out my Headache Tracking – Physical Computing project. Today, I had a mind-blowing conversation with Eric Rosenthal. It probably wasn’t very mind-blowing for him. But I left blown away. There are so many awesome things I can do with this project! Therefore, mind-blown.

It’s probably lucky that I think a) light and b) cameras are interesting and have a background in photography as it is definitely going to be helpful in making this project happen.

As I suspected, I will need to measure light as it relates to human perception. Luckily, AMS-TAOS makes sensors/chips that measure illuminance as it relates to human vision. However, human perception of light is beyond what any sensor currently available can measure. → Read more