Inspiration
Clinical trials are on the biggest leap of faith people take when agreeing to the trials. They are agreeing to something about which they have no idea as to how it will affect them, whether it be an allergic reaction or a life changing threat. When MEDPACE introduced their challenge for the participants, I thought that what if there is a digital clone of the person who has the same characteristics as that of the person, on which the drug is tested before the trial begins on the person.
What it does
It is a very basic image of a digital clone which uses a 3D model of a human body made in Blender and shows the effects of different inputs and outputs provided by the Arduino on that body. There are two major parts of the project. There are two push buttons which act as two different drugs for the body in the project. One is harmful and the other one has no side effects on the body. Now, the color of the body will change to red or green with respect to the data provided by the Arduino. This provides an image of what drug initiation would look like.
How we built it
I connected the interface of Blender and Arduino IDE. I started by making a 3D model of the body and then testing connections between Blender and Arduino by using an ultrasonic sensor to move the object about the spatial view. Once, this was done, the push buttons were used to initiate the test drug analysis. The drug tests were seen by changing the color of the body in Blender from grey to red or green respectively.
Challenges we ran into
After the connection was established once, there has been a constant error saying "Port Access Denied" which is hindering with any further progress of the prototype. However, connection is established through the terminal script of the blender.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was not aware of the Blender script before now. I can say that I am proud of connecting Arduino and Blender together.
What we learned
While working, I was tinkering with many systems since I had no particular direction. I was able to learn to connect Python IDE to Arduino IDE and use MATLAB for Arduino.
What's next for More than Twins
The most important work for More Than Twins would be to tackle the problem of error which is not letting the prototype proceed.
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