Wander Pen

Inspiration

I tend to write everything down so that I don't forget it. My only problem is that I forget where I wrote it! The inspiration from this project is to streamline and organize my thoughts and my life all into one platform, so I never forget where my thoughts go.

What it does

Using a regular pen and an IMU, it measures what you write, compares it to a pre-saved template of a 1 or a 0, and tells you if you've written a 1 or a 0. From there, the idea would be to send you what youve written either through email or google tasks or one-note.

How we built it

I used a microcontroller from my circuits class, an IMU from a former mentor and a button from my roommate, attached them all to a pen, and parsed the data though Arduino and sent it to Python to process.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges I found was trying to find a correlation between 2 signals of different sizes

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Im proud that I was able to learn so much in so little time

What we learned

I learned a lot about signal processing and data handling

What's next for Wander Pen

Id love to a) go wireless, b) collect mroe data for accuracy and capability expansion, and c) be able to send results to my phone

Built With

• c++
• imu
• python
• serial
• teensy