Inspiration
Keeping alarms or setting up apps that remind you to drink water can be annoying and we just wanted to mix things up a little. And some times you're in the middle of a lecture or a presentation and then suddenly your phone will ring and its just annoying. Practically this could be mounted on a desk and the user just has to wave his hand over the PIR and it resets the timer.
What it does
It uses the arduino's internal clock to alert the user when they need to drink water. Also the user is displayed a message reminding them to also get proper food and sleep whenever they reset the timer. There's also a shorter timer for users who work with screens to remind them to relax their eyes for a little bit.
How we built it
Since we don't have hardware we used TinkerCad to simulate the hardware.
Challenges we ran into
The simulation isn't real-time so we faced some issues in the timer function.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We delivered a working simulation. This simulation reminds the user to relax every 3 seconds and to drink water every 20 seconds. The PIR sensor also functions properly, it resets the water reminder when it detects motion.
What we learned
We learned how PIR sensor works and how to use it to detect motion.
What's next for Trackh2o
If and when we build this we plan on having it output to the serial monitor and then use that data to display statistics about the user's hydration and eating habits with some colourful graphs and charts.
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