Inspiration
Our project was inspired by a previous hackathon, where my team made a pill dispenser that pushed datat to a cloud-hosted database on whether or not the patient took their medicine at the right time.
What it does
Our project is an analysis suite for Parkinsons patients, wherein we have a web dashboard that displays relevant medicinal data about a particular person. This is useful for many reasons: firstly, the effected person can take charge of their life with the knowledge of how their disorder effects them exactly. Secondly, it enables doctors to quickly verify whether the disorder is drastically worsening or not.
How we built it
We built this technology using a combination of several frameworks - PlatformIO for the Arduino, Rocket web server for the website, Bootstrap on the website and Rust on the entire backend. On the Arduino, we have a gyroscopic sensor connected that outputs to serial out - in the future we would've liked to make an FTP connection with our server.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into probably the most important challenge of all - sleep. I got a full six hours. That, and Jeff was unfamiliar with the backend stack and was unable to fix some issues in the code.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of how well we integrated the project into our stack, despite not managing to have finished it into an entirely working product.
What we learned
Jeff learned a lot about the Rust language, and I learned quite a bit about the challenges of working with Arduino.
What's next for Asclepius
Hopefully we can work on this at home and get a functional model in the coming weeks. We certainly bit off more than we could chew!
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