Inspiration
Everyday, more and more people are being diagnosed with diseases such as Parkinson's and other muscular degenerative diseases due to increasing particles due to rising pollution in our air. Our solution to combat this is to built a Tremor Tracker: a wearable medical sensor.
What it does
The device is a low cost, easy to use wearable that helps medical professionals track minute changes in their patient's symptoms from a laptop.
How we built it
Our custom sleeve houses an Arduino Uno, a custom EMG shield and a gyroscope to calculate arm and leg swing range of motions and tremors.
Challenges we ran into
During early development, we attempted to implement a tech stack that would allow us to see sensor data in real time, but were not successful. We found it harder than we expected to create a comfortable and portable wearable device and that reliable wireless communication is hard to achieve for real-time measurements.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
However; despite our challenges, we're proud to have produced our own Arduino code to interface two complex sensors and relate the data in a meaningful, effective fashion all within a streamlined user dashboard.
What we learned
We learned that building a project from the ground up in under 48 hours is difficult, and making sure to move on from mistakes and setbacks is key to building a meaningful and expandable idea in such a short time frame.
What's next for TremorTracker
Tremor Tracker's next steps include creating wireless communication capability between the board and the computer, more than likely followed by setting up a database for easy storage of data that will then be transmitted over the air to our dashboard client right to the medical professional's desk.
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