Inspiration

Lots of programmers suffer from carpal tunnel, usually from typing with bad wrist posture. Carpal tunnel is very painful and costs money to treat. Using the Myo arm band we can detect when posture is incorrect and send a vibration to the arms, reminding the user to correct their posture.

What it does

The StressBand detects bad posture based on positioning and vibrates to tell the user to change it. In addition to this it also vibrates every hour to remind the user to take breaks.

How we built it

Myo Arm Band, Javascript

Challenges we ran into

Myo Arm Band is not as sensitive as we once thought, it was hard getting it to detect bad posture.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing the project and going through medical papers to understand carpal tunnel completely

What's next for Myo StressBand

Maybe use it for piano wrist posture

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