Link to Milo's Blogs
Fingerprint Skeleton Key - Design for a Cause

Milo's Wrap up Post (including videos)
First Working Prototype

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Seeing EyeDuino - Design for a Cause

Dale’s Wrap up Post (including videos)
All Wired & Ready for Trial Run

Watch Final Video

dwinhold Canada

Project: The Seeing EyeDuino

Synopsis: The Seeing EyeDuino will be a robotic Seeing Eye dog that guide the seeing impaired around obstacles and danger. The user will be able to control the speed through the hand harness attached to the robot. When there is danger the robot will emit a specific sound correlated with that danger to alert the user. There will be different sound emitted for different dangers.  I will also try to create a touch pad that will send this information in braille as well.

Dale Winhold's project blogs

Dixon Selvan India

Project: Anosmia

Synopsis:  This project is to enhance the lives of people suffering from Anosmia, an inability to sense smell. The project will be split into two main subsystems: Audio & Visual Cue System and a Smart Wheel Chair.  It translate the smells in the environment and have voice control features over appliances—alerting potentially harmful gas leaks.

Dixon Selvan's project blogs

fyaocn China

Project: Blowing-Whistle as Controller(BWaC)

Synopsis: The Blowing-Whistle as Controller (BWaC) can control home appliance remotely.  It is helpful to elders with slow coordination and difficult precise touch controller like an IR-remote or mobile. The one fix-frequency whistle can send on-off signals to lock doors, turn off LED lamps, and close curtains.  It can also detect keys left at the door.  When you blow the whistle in front of your door, the servo will turn the lock.

F. Yao's project blogs

kyle90 Canada

Project: The Balance Belt

Synopsis: A wearable device for seniors that senses falling motion and bad posture. Following the detection of a fall, the device will send a notification to the user's phone and a motor vibration in the device. If the user does not respond with a confirmation within a given time limit, the device would call 911 using a recorded message with the user's name, address and medical history then it would request an ambulance. We would like to implement things like posture reminders, and other functions to ensure a better quality of life.

Kyle Buchanan's project blogs

milosrasic98 Serbia

Project: Fingerprint Skeleton Key

Synopsis: My idea is primarily aimed towards the visually impaired people, but I feel it can be useful for anyone. We live in an age of an ever growing market of smart locks and NFC locks, again there are a lot of plain locks which remain all over. While for a non visually impaired person it's annoying to go through a key ring looking for the right one, it is even more cumbersome for a visually impaired person. Another problem is finding where people left their keys.  This product should resolve these issues.

Milos Rasic's project blogs

pranjalranjan299 India

Project: AUDIO4VISION - Automated Image Caption Audio Generator for Visually Impaired People

Synopsis: Living with visual impairment can be challenging, since daily-life situations are difficult to understand without good visual acuity. This is a wearable device, a headset with a camera(arduCam) on the front, which will take a continuous stream of images. These images will then be passed through a neural network model and give a description announcing to the visually impaired user.

Pranjal Ranjan's project blogs

prashanth.nagendrappa India

Project: Smart Voice synthesizer and visualizer

Synopsis: This project aims to solve challenges faced by the people who are unable to speak.  The wearable sensor based gloves acquire information related to the shape, orientation, movement, and location of the hand. They contain flex sensors and a 3-D accelerometer. Based on particular movement, voice correspondence will be generated and the text will be displayed. A mode change on the system can also control home appliances connected to the system.

Prashanth Kumar G N's project blogs

roborob1266 USA

Project: Autism Assistant

Synopsis: My autistic son does not speak so I will create a system that will speak on his behalf with the push of buttons.  I will also implement a touch screen where he can select items with the button and say “I want” then display item that he selects.  It will say out loud “I want” “Apple” or “Chips” or whatever he selects.  My goal is to develop a device with a flash drive that parents can add photos and audio (their voice) for each item to meet the child's needs.

Rob Romero's project blogs