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MyPill

A Medical Pill dispenser bundled with a mobile application. Includes notification alerts, automatic escalation (automatic email's caretakers), and pill statistics (e.g. Pill count, temperature, humidity) Hardware device includes a buzzer for alerts, OLED Screen for status indication, camera for automatic pill consumption detection, and servo motor for automatically dispensing pills.

Tech Stack

Component	Technologies
Mobile App	React Native, Expo SDK 54, TypeScript, Expo Router, Auth0
Backend	Django 6.0, Django REST Framework, SQLite, ChromaDB, Pytesseract
AI / RAG	Google Gemini, openFDA API, ChromaDB vector store
Arduino	C++, SSD1306 OLED (U8g2), Servo, DHT11, EEPROM
Serial Worker	Python, pyserial
Camera Module	Python, OpenCV, MediaPipe

What we learned

Mobile app development using react native.
How to use back-end libraries such as opencv (python) to track the user taking the medicine.
Building optimized RAG pipelines with data gathering from external APIs.

What's next for MyPill

Graphing data to learn more about the customer
Interface for caretakers to view details about patients

Built With

Submitted to

HackSussex 2026
- Winner [BCS] Digital Accessibility
- Winner [Sussex AI] Best Sussex AI

Created by

- Designed, implemented and optimized the Retrieval Augmented Generation to best be used with the latest Gemini model within the specified scope of providing prescription information
- Implemented the feature of turning on an external webcam and using pre-trained models to track the user's hand movement figuring out if they are holding the prescription pill between their fingers and determining weather they have eaten
- Made it possible for the machine to extract data from a provided image such that patients prescription data gets extracted and put into text to help elderly people make it such that they don't have to individually put in their prescription whilst being able to get all the useful health tips form the model with an increased ease of use

Daniel Cocos
Computer science student at university. Outside of class I write programs that I either find interesting or useful.
- Developed the react native mobile application acting as the UI for the project
- Integrated the React Native Mobile application with the django backend
- Integrated django backend with arduino via a python worker running pyserial
- Integrated auth0 for authentication in the mobile app and authentication verification in django
- Integrate brevo to automatically email caretakers in the event a pill is not taken

Aleksander Tacconi
- Designed the CAD for the build.
- Programmed the following components in Arduino C++ : MG90 servo, OLED display, temperature and humidity sensor, buzzer and tactile buttons.
- Assisted with the design and structure of the Arduino to Pyserial to Django communication system.
- Assembled the build from scratch.

Sonny Pullen

Updates

Daniel Cocos started this project — Mar 01, 2026 05:58 AM EST

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