EatWell E-Spoon

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  The components of the build

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  The spoon head attachment

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  The fork head attachment

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  The preliminary working prototype

Inspiration

All of us love to spend time with our grandparents but old age brings with it a new set of challenges. Hand tremors become persistent over a period of time as age increases. We also observed that people suffering from Parkinson's Disease suffer from this issue. Keeping the goal as finding a solution to aid them, we were able to come up with a simple, cost-effective and yet reliable device to help them.

What it does

The EatWell E-spoon uses a gyro sensor to detect the tilt caused due to the hand tremors and corrects the spoon to stay level using a servo motor. The correction is determined using our code which is based on the input of the gyro sensor. For these processes, we have used an arduino mini pro microcontroller which is the brain of the system.

How we built it

The present working prototype is at a preliminary stage. We used a servo motor, with a plastic spoon head attached to it connected to a casing with the gyro sensor, microcontroller and button cell. For the final model, we aim to add a durable and resilient casing with a metal spoon head which will be detachable and replaceable with the fork and knife heads.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The simplistic approach truly paid off and led to us designing a cost-effective spoon available to everyone in need of such a solution.

What we learned

We learned about the severeness of the Parkinson's disease in particular cases. We also learned about the working of gyro sensors and servo motors along with 3d designing and manufacturing.

What's next for EatWell E-Spoon

The next step in the EatWell E-spoon is to test it out. We will have to work out any structural flaws or coding flaws and resolve them to aid the sufferers.

Built With

• arduino
• autodesk-fusion-360
• embedded-c
• fritzing
• solidworks