Intellidget

I have always been one of those restless kids always toying around with whatever is in my hand or making sure it is obvious that I don't know what to do with my hands and fidgeting continiously. While it is a part of our natural thinking process for most, the changes in the triggers, environment, etc lead to different types of fidgeting and tells a lot about the person's mental health.

While this is true for adults and people who are self-aware of this, there are kids who aren't very expressive and end up living through their anxiety and ADD triggers again and again, making it hard for them to diagnose and recover from such conditions.

The Smart Fidget has been designed keeping the above conditions in mind.

According to a lot of research and healthcare pages, fidget toys, and fidgeting in general is supposed to help everyone stay focused and react to stress. But a lot of times considering the common usage of such toys, there are serious troubles and issues that get disguised in adults and for kids it's hard to figure out what exactly is causing the trouble and what really is triggering them.

Here is the solution that I have been working on:

• A fidget device that sends signals to the cloud everytime its usage is increased, triggered or decreased. Basically any changes to the toy is sent to the cloud.
• To add to the functionality of keeping a track of how much you had to use the fidget toy in a day, I have also set up a page which has embedded VR, so when that web page is viewed on the phone, you have an option to view it in VR where you can test your patient/chld for triggers by changing to different types of scenarios.
• The cloud can also be equipped to send notifications if you want to be notified after a particular level of activity.

The gadget will use the following components:

• development board like arduino nano or
• Tactile sensors
• Accelerometer
• If required environment sensors which will send data only when requested.
• last phase- A 3d printed case according to the chosen design, for now paper prototypes will be used.

Google cloud platform :

1. To get the data from the sensors
2. To visualise the data on a dashboard hosted in the same platform

The Wearable Intellidget

This is designed by keeping in mind specifiacally autistic kids. Toys for autistic kids are designed to make sure they are engaging and help the kids develop certain skilld too.

Children with autism may also have difficulties with sensory processing. This means they may have trouble processing sights, sounds, smells, textures, or anything else that stimulates the senses.

Keeping in mind that autistic kids won't be happy with a sudden chamge of having to wear something on their wrist, I have played around with some cords that are soft, skin friendly and won't feel foreign to the child but will engage them with the different textures.

The textured bands will come with attacheable unit of toys, like turnable cogs, movable lego, etc, which can be made more creative and customised as per the child's need by their parents. Every attacheable unit will come with its microcontroller chip, accelerometer and all the toys will have sensors to detect anomalies in the activity, like a sudden surge or a complete abandonement. The unit will function like an independent intellidget and notify based on the set threshold.

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• gmetri