Cadence

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  Logo

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  Breathing page (its upside down so UI doesnt matter)

Inspiration

It's important for children to learn ways to manage their emotions. deep breathing is easy to do. it's especially important to teach children when they are young so the skills come easily and automatically to them. In adulthood, when bad habits are entrenched, it's harder to make changes. Aside from anxiety, controlled breathing can also lower blood pressure. high blood pressure leads to heart attacks, kidney damage and stroke. Medications to treat anxiety or high BP can be expensive, cause side effects and symptoms come back if you stop your meds. Deep breathing is a life long skill that is free with no side effects. We made this app to teach kids how to breathe deeply in a very simple way that eventually can wean them off the app to be able to breathe deeply on their own. By tracking their breaths we can show how they did, what they need to improve, and their progression over time.

What it does

Cadence is a guided breathing app that tracks your breath by placing your phone upside down on your chest. We use the gyroscope to determine the rotation of the phone and derive how you are breathing.

How we built it

We built it in React Native

Challenges we ran into

We spent most of the hackathon trying to deal with the accelerator to determine breaths, but after so many hours sunk, we realized the accelerometer wouldn't work. We decided to use the gyroscope which worked a lot better, but that left us with very little time to actually build the project. Additionally, Kai had to leave at 5 30.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our perseverence. We were going to quit once we were 6 hours in with nothing to show, but decided to push through even if we couldn't get it fully finished in time. The name and logo.

What we learned

Perseverence and React Native

What's next for Cadence

Different breathing patterns Progressing users to breathing deeply on their own less with less audio and vibration prompts Show progression of breathing Score and gamification

Built With

• react-native