The final design, pictured here with the cover off
The summer after my senior year, I worked in the Bioinstrumentation lab at MIT developing a thermal haptic system. This was done using Tinkerforge bricklets, which allow for rapid heating and cooling of a Peltier device. I also wrote a simple PD controller for regulating the amount of voltage delivered to the Peltier device, which allowed us to precisely control the temperature of the Peltier device.
The thermal haptic system with the cover on
An image of the thermal system taken using a thermal camera
A double-wave heating profile, with the desired temperature graphed in blue and the recoded temperature graphed in red