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Dream Final Product
A comfortable, durable shoe that replaces Google maps, your headphones and your fitbit all in one.
Minimum Viable product
Wearable tech that gives you directions using something tangible.
- Electrical Design A PCB with a bluetooth module, an accelerometer, a microcontroller, and vibrating motors
- Mechanical Design A wearable device that is small, cheap, and easy to use.
- Software Design An app that can easily be used that sends direction data to the arduino in real time.
PURPOSE
We wanted to create a product that would be accessible for as many people as possible. Thus, our product uses motors to deliver directions, which doesn't require sight or hearing. We want people to be able to move freely about this world without worrying about having to check their phone while they're biking on the streets or walking through an unfamiliar neighborhood at night.Our app eliminates the need to check your phone or listen to directions as you travel.
HOW IT WORKS
Our project has three main parts to it, mechanical, electrical, and software designs. Each one flowed through different versions as our project changed. The general story-line flow between all of them is that the app sends data over bluetooth to the arduino, which sends a signal to the PCBs to vibrate the motors. All of the electronics and the batteries to power them are housed in our shoe attatchment.
MEET THE TEAM
Sparsh Bansal
Sophie Wu
Argyris Kriezis
Gabby Dyer
Katie Goldstein