StraightUp

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Initial Goals: Our project is a posture detector that will attach to different parts of a chair. We hope to use a mix of push and ping sensors to detect if the users' back is arched and the distance from the upper back to the head rest of a chair.  We will use wifi by notifying the user on their computer/smartphone/device (using blynk app) 

Final Description: We were able to use a combination of two pushbuttons and one ping sensor to detect if the user's back is properly positioned against the back of their seat. The pushbuttons make sure the back makes contact with the chair by checking for pressure while the ping sensor makes sure the upper back maintains proper posture by making sure it is within a distance away from the chair (or else the back is arched and thus bad posture is achieved). The sensors were connected to a nodemcu which communicated using wifi with the blynk app. When the user's back had the proper posture they would receive a notification from the blynk app that told them they had "Good posture!".

Each Partner's Contributions: Both worked equally on the original code. Both attempted to create the hardware setup for the project but ultimately only one was fully functional to produce a video demo to share on the day of presentations (this was due to unforeseen circumstances caused by hardware malfunctioning). For the presentation, Yash did the majority of the slides so that Amanda contributed images of the completed code and the final hardware setup, and she provided the video demo that was shared on demo day. Amanda did the majority of the final devpost but Yash wrote up the initial devpost which included its initial description of what the goals of this project were.

Built With

• arduino