Pill Punter

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Inspiration

Over 66% of adults in the US take prescription pills. That’s 131 million people. As we age, our reliance on prescription pills only increases, up to 6-8 pills daily to be taken at different dosages, times, and days. For the elderly with poor memory or dementia, keeping track of these pills can be extremely difficult. That’s why we created Pill Punter, a smart pill tracker and dispenser.

What it does

Pill Punter is a smartphone app that can be paired with our pill dispenser. The app allows the user to input which pills they want to take at what times and days. The phone communicates with an Arduino located in our pill dispenser through WiFi, which triggers the pill dispenser to dispense the perfect quantity and combination of pills at the right moment.

How we built it

We designed our application in Figma, built the app using React Native and Android Studio, designed a circuit and wrote some Arduino code, and created a CAD model of our dispenser using Solidworks.

Challenges we ran into

We were learning React Native for the first time so we had a lot of trouble setting the environment up. Our app is not fully functional yet but we are working on it! Also, we did not have access to any hardware so we were not able to test that portion of the project.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

Most of our team members are software inclined, but we were able to push ourselves out of our comfort zone to design something that contains mechanical, hardware, and software components.