Visual Project Summary - Move Your Posterior
This project was to create an Interactive Wearable Accessory. I chose to create a Move Your Posterior(MYP) interactive wearable accessory because I thought this device would be beneficial in getting individuals to be more active. My unique user is one that has heart health issues, but spends prolonged amounts of time sitting, which according to studies can lead to early death. (http://globalnews.ca/news/3740438/sitting-all-day-at-work-get-up-every-30-minutes-to-cut-your-risk-of-death/) Therefore, getting up and being active every once and a while is extremely important.
To create my Move Your Posterior interactive wearable accessories, I needed to get the circuits created and plug everything into the arduino. I followed tutorials we did in class and this one that I found online to hook up my force sensitive resistor to my LED. I then added my servo to the breadboard, so that I could control my headband.
I created all of the accessories from scratch using different kinds of Christmas ribbon, an old piece of fabric, hot glue, duct tape, scotch tape, popsicle sticks, toothpicks and some foam.
Once completed, I soldered the three interactive wearable accessories to longer wires to allow for movability. Lastly, I used duct tape to attach the force sensitive resistor that is wrapped in foam to the stomach warmer.
The completed interactive wearable accessory, ready for the user.
The three interactive wearable accessories now allowed the user to sit down to activate the force sensitive resistor, which in turn activates the warning light in the ring.
If the user doesn't get up before the warning light turns solid, then the shade on the headband will lower blocking their vision. When the user stands up, the shade goes up so they can see. If they sit down before 5 seconds has elapsed, then the shade will come down again making the user have to get back up. If the user stays up for longer than 5 seconds, then the light goes off and the user can sit back down.
Concept and Development Sketches
Concept Sketches
My concept sketches revolved around getting lots of different interactive wearable accessories that could be useful to certain individuals in certain situations.
Detailed Variations
From the concept sketches, I chose the Get Off Your Butt interactive wearable accessory (name was changed later) and started looking at different variations of this concept in order to get ideas of how it could be implemented
Refinement Sketches
Then based on the detailed variations of the concept, I chose the one that suited the project the best and created refinement sketches to get the details of the prototype so that implementation would be easier.
Implemented Software Application
Source Code[1.28 KB]
Runnable Executable [1.27 KB]
Instructions:
To run the .exe click Runnable Executable and download the Project1EXE.zip file.
After downloading please read the README_EXE file for instructions on running the executable
To access the source code click on Source Code and download the CPSC581Project1.zip file.
After downloading please read the README_SOURCECODE file for instructions on viewing the source code
Runnable Executable [1.27 KB]
Instructions:
To run the .exe click Runnable Executable and download the Project1EXE.zip file.
After downloading please read the README_EXE file for instructions on running the executable
To access the source code click on Source Code and download the CPSC581Project1.zip file.
After downloading please read the README_SOURCECODE file for instructions on viewing the source code
Video of Final System
Credits for this Project
Circuit Diagram used to hook up force sensitive resistor to LED from: http://www.learnedu.us/learn/images/arduinobasic/touchSensor_bb.png