Concept. A black box (usb or eth) would contain a hand (silicon/rubber type). The idea would be using sensors placed on the hand maybe up to 32 or 64 would respond to the feeling to the receiver and simulate the feeling back. The sensors would be 8bit analog to represent 255 different feeling/pressures. The concept and idea I think is not difficult in fact easy, but the challenge would be how to actually make the receive hand feel like the sender. The sender would use I imagine a pressure sensor, but the receive would have to replicate this pressure. Still I would be nice to build a prototype just to show the communication even through the feeling for the human would be far from a real hand shake. Raspberry pi or such credit card computer with a analog IO interface would be the brains. I did have one thought for the hand using compressed air to increase decrease pressure sensation but not sure.

 

2016/7 Arp Odyssey control Panel midi interface

Plan to build an A3 size panel with sliders and switches hooked up to a midi control kit, to control Arp VST softsynth. I created the template in Visio and will use a Doepfer USB64 for the controller circuit