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Brainstorming applications of knowing your angle relative to a point source:

- adaptive sports for visually impaired players like beep baseball?

- robot swarm members knowing their relative 2d position with a single microphone? (frequency for angle, amplitude for distance)

- a cheap, durable way for human workers to track the rotation cadence of slowly rotating machinery?



Reminds me of Ben Underwood, the blind kid who used echo location around the house, playing basketball, riding his bike around the neighborhood, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnH7AIwhpik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Ben_Underwo...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

Bloody hell, I can't do all that...

I wonder how they discovered that "clicking" works, seems so counterintuitive to discover. Though it's fair that I don't spend anywhere near that much time listening carefully and noticing how sharp sounds reflect.


> I wonder how they discovered that "clicking" works

I won't think it's they unexpected - have a walk a forest with loud insects. You'll hear a lot of interesting noises shaped a lot by what you stand near to. Large trees especially change how you hear things quite a lot.


Before practical applications, my first thought was a grade-school science fair entry. It’s novel enough for judges not to have seen it for a couple of years.




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