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In the Comments Below:  Let Us Know What Wearable You Come Up With!image

 

Choose Whatever Components You Like,  but We're Giving Away a Limited Number of PocketBeagles for Project Ideas that Use One!

 

 

The theme this month is Wearable Tech and its based on suggestion from .  He reminded us that costumes are not just for Halloween - Projects and Videos , they are universal to all cultures and celebrations.  Earlier this year, the community was introduced to 9 year old boy named Cody and a collaborative project dubbed Project C.O.D.I., an acronym for Computerized Obstacle Detection Interface. The goal of the project was to build a an assistive technology into a to superhero costume.  The project used an Arduino and was open sourced, with the idea that you can help the many by focusing on solutions for the few.

 

Should you be interested in building a wearable project for a good cause,  here is your chance to do a project for a good cause.  It coincides with Project14 | Holiday Special: Spread Mirth and Merry Through Music and LED Displays!  Feel free to do projects for both.  Part of true joy comes from helping others.  Both project competitions will end at the same time.  You can find out more information on Project C.O.D.I by looking at Project C.O.D.I. | Overview, Current Proof of Concept, and Next Steps and in Project C.O.D.I. |  Schematics, Arduino IDE Sketch, B.O.M, and Eagle Files!  You can literally do any accessibility project that's wearable and we'll also tag it in our Design for a Cause space.  You could even make something stylish such as Darth Vader's mask, a piece of wearable tech that he used just to stay alive:

 

 

 

 

Your wearable tech device can be literally anything wearable.  Such as this contraption, used to read thoughts:

 

 

Here are Some Projects to Help Inspire You:

 

Wearable Sudden Impact and Health Monitor by

 

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Wearable Arc Reactor for Halloween by

 

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Project C.O.D.I. | Overview, Current Proof of Concept, and Next Steps

 

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Morty's torture underwear by

 

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Fingerprint Skeleton Key - First working prototype - Design for a Cause Challenge - Blog Post #10  by

 

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Superhero Wearables Part 1: Development Episode

Superhero Wearables Part 2: Assembly Episode

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Episode 163: Ben Heck’s Parallax Sensor Seeing-Eye Hat Episode

 

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A DJ Harrigan Video: Homemade Retro Digital Wristwatch by VCP Biography: DJ

 

 

Safe and Sound - Invisible Hazardous Environmental Factors Monitoring System by

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Your Monthly Theme

 

The Monthly Theme You Voted For: Wearable Tech
Project Report - Wearable Sudden Impact and Health Monitor final Update Project C.O.D.I. | Overview, Current Proof of Concept, and Next Steps

 

Your Chance to Win

 

Be Original
Stick to the Theme
  • You could come up with a clever name that make's your project memorable!
    • This project is your baby! Part of the fun of bringing something new into the world is coming up with a name.
  • Your project could introduce something new or that is not commercially available or affordable!
  • If you have an idea for a project that doesn't fit the current theme then submit your idea in the comments section of the monthly poll.
List the Steps
Submit Video Proof
  • Provide the steps you took to complete your project (text, video, or images).
    • This could be a step by step how-to-guide, vlog, schematics, coding, napkin drawings, voice narration, or whatever you think will be useful!
  • If it doesn't work that's fine, this is more about the journey than the end product.
  • A short video is all that is required but you can shoot as much video as you like.
  • You are encouraged to be creative and have as much fun as possible!

 

 

First Place Winners

 

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Your Project, Your Ideas!

 

 

About Project14
Directions

Every month you'll have a new poll where you'll get to decide an upcoming project competition, based on your interests, that will take place a couple of months in advance. Themes are broad in scope so that everyone can participate regardless of skill set.

 

What are Monthly Themes?

  • Every month (around the 14th of each month) a new theme will be posted on Project14.
  • Submit your ideas (proposals) for your projects to get feedback from the rest of the community.
  • Submit a project entry in the Theme space once you start working on it.

 

What are Monthly Theme Polls?

  • Every month (around the 14th of each month) there is a project theme poll.
  • Vote on which project competition you want to see for the following upcoming theme.
    • The themes voted on during the previous poll decided the upcoming theme.
    • If you submit an idea for a theme that is not used then it can still be used in a future poll.
  • Themes comments and ideas from the comments section of the project theme poll.



Step 1: Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free.

Step 2: Post in the comments section below to begin a discussion on your idea. Videos, pictures and text are all welcomed forms of submission.

Step 3: Submit a blog post of your progress on your project by the end of the month.  You are free to submit as many blog entries as you like until the beginning of the next theme.

 

Be sure to include video proof of your project!

 

Visit:  Wearable Tech

 

 

 

You have until January 14th End of Day to submit your completed project!

 

A jury consisting of your peers will judge project submissions!


In the comments below: Tell us what you what electronics you would wear in your project!

 

Bonus:  We're Giving Away a Limited Number of PocketBeagles for Project Proposals that Use One!

  • I found this Design Challenge very Late image, but that does not matter as i get lot of free time for my Semester Break image !

    I recently come across to the Problem of Passive Smoking ,and come across an Idea of Building a Smart Pocket Air Filter  which i named as "Swachh Swasa".

    What my Project aims to Accomplish is to filter the Polluted air (with Dust,Automobile Smoke ) and Provide it to the USER without interrupting in their Daily Work.

    The Main Problem for this Project is that it requires Good Computations to Synchronize to the USER Breathing Rate and to analyze the quality of Air , I thought of using Beagle Bone with its High Processing Capability and Memory become an Ideal Candidate for My Purpose as its dimension is 55 mm x 35 mm x 5 mm it suits for being Pocket Device.

    This is the Block Diagram of the Design :

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    May be I am Optimistic but still I am A Practical Engineer who wants to be Buid things that Matter !

  • I would like to create a patient room monitoring device, it can be used in hospital or in the home. Patient room should be maintained properly with feasible temperature, humidity, pressure, ventilation. The air conditioners some times are not convenient option to maintain the room temperature to the patient requirement. The recorded data can be used by the doctors or caretaker to suggest the suitable environment to the patient until they get recovered. PocketBeagles hardware kit is used to monitor the patient room condition by interfacing the necessary sensors like temperature, humidity, pressure, ambient light, UV with Analog, I2C, SPI pins depending on the sensor types. ESP32 WiFi module is used to transfer the data wireless, HEX keypad to set the range limits and OLED/touch Display is used to display the data on the Monitoring station. As the PocketBeagles is a tiny key-fob sized computer best suitable for the patient room monitoring and is easy to carry. It will be good opportunity for me to showcase the project and to help the people to recover quickly from their suffering. This kit can be used in hospitals, ambulances, emergency vehicles, clinics, etc as a patient environment monitoring device.

  • Thanks you and element14 for the pocket beagle board and the cool shirt.

    I have got the package and the goodies as well with it. I have ordered the rest of the parts I need for my project. In the meantime I play around with the beagle as it is my first time with it.

  • Hi ,

     

    I would like to use PocketBeagle in the cool project idea which involves translating hand signs and gestures into speech. This can be helpful in a lot of areas such as mute and persons with speech disorder to communicate to the world more easily and effectively. As PocketBeagle is a compact wearable, it is an ideal choice to fulfill this task.

     

    The system uses various force and tactile sensors attached to the fingers and wrists. These sensors are monitored by PocketBeagle in real time. PocketBeagle decodes the sign gestures by analyzing the force and tactile values on the hands to produce corresponding speech output by referring to a predefined repository mapping the sign and the word/phrase.

     

    The device can be made very compact and light-weight by installing the PocketBeagle and sensors to gloves in hand so that it can be used anytime with great mobility and easiness. Further modifications can be performed in future which stays within the processing capability and integration limit of PocketBeagle.

     

    Hope this idea is interesting and useful to society, as many people can benefit from this affordable and simple system.

     

    Cheers,

    Jiss

  • My Idea for a wearable is based in people who have hyperhidrosis, using a temperature sensor, a little fan directed towards the side of the head, and a microcomputer, like PocketBeagle i can detect the skin temperature in real time and start the fan to reduce the production of sweat in the face region. And using the data about temperature, times when i'm start/stop fan and  localization of a person i can use these data to detect regions where the incidence of sweat occurs more.

  • Here is a demo of the PocketBeagle streaming music.

     

    This is a great tutorial on setting up the PocketBeagle with a USB Sound Card.

    https://beagleboard.org/p/beaglefriends-octavosystems/adding-text-to-speech-to-pocketbeagle-projects-3ab078

     

    I installed mpg123 with

    sudo apt-get install -y mpg123

     

    Test with

    mpg123 ice1.somafm.com/u80s-128-mp3

     

    There are many other music stations available on somafm. Information for each station including the direct server links to each station. There are many options for different stream formats. I've only tested the aformentioned station and others in the same 128kb mp3 format. For each station there is an alternative server link list. mpg123 needs the 128kb mp3 direct server link placed after mpg123 in terminal. The above link is an 80's music station. There are other genres such as

     

    70's

    mpg123 http://ice1.somafm.com/seventies-128-mp3

     

    Dubstep

     

    mpg123 http://ice1.somafm.com/dubstep-128-mp3

     

     

    ..And others. The quality of the music stream using a TP Link USB WiFi Adapter, Sabrent USB 2.0 Stereo Sound Card, and a generic 4-port USB 2.0 Hub is quite good. There are no issues with popping sounds, cutouts, or buffering. 

  • Here are a few resources for getting started with the PocketBeagle.

     

    https://beagleboard.org/pocket

     

    https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/FAQ

     

    https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/System-Reference-Manual

     

    There is also support for ClickBoards with the PocketBeagle.

     

    https://beagleboard.org/p/102067/device-tree-support-for-click-boards-pocketbeagle-6de395

     

    https://beagleboard.org/p/beaglefriends-octavosystems/expand-pocketbeagle-easily-with-mikro-click-boards-oled-c-de7a7c

     

    Many of the ClickBoards feature components that can be found in a breakout pcb from other manufacturers.

    For instance, the OLED W Click https://www.mikroe.com/oled-w-click  uses the same SSD1306 driver as a few of Adafruit's OLED displays.

    https://learn.adafruit.com/ssd1306-oled-displays-with-raspberry-pi-and-beaglebone-black

  • Hi enthusiasts, My name is Cris Thomas and I am a researcher *** hobbyist. I came across this special PocketBeagle idea pool and would like to introduce my idea.

     

    The system which I am proposing is a targeting system module which will point in the exact location in which our head moves. Additionally, it includes a 3 DOF manipulator which reacts to our hand gestures. The idea is to implement this as simple as possible so that it can be replicated by anybody and can be enhanced or scaled very easily. To make the control system compact, PocketBeagle is an excellent candidate with its Linux runtime and extensive connectivity options to add sensors and actuators. This module has got numerous applications like logistic control operations and management, wheelchair, manipulator control, precise medical surgery, interactive driving, teleoperation, unmanned vehicles etc. to name a few.

     

    The technical details are as follows.PocketBeagle will be integrated with Inertial Measurement Units (eg. MPU 9250) that track the movements and position of our head and hands, basically the gestures. The data is manipulated real-time and is reformatted to obtain the necessary actuator signals such as a PWM control signals which will control the actuators such as motors.

     

    My team had implemented this concept using Arduino. But with the processing capability and speed of PocketBeagle, a more real-time approach can be realized for the same objective. If I get a chance to implement this project on a PocketBeagle, I hope the system will become an excellent module that can be used independently or by integrating to another system.

     

    Regards,

    Cris

     

  • I've recently read the book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. It covers many aspects of why sleep is very important for our health and factors related to its quality. Reduced amount of sleep can significantly degrade health, memory, productivity, athletic performance and quality of life. Exposure to light and specifically to blue spectrum of the light before the sleep is reducing amount of sleep hormone (melatonin) and making harder to fell asleep.

     

    I'd like to build a smart bracelet that monitors exposure to the blue spectrum of the light over the day and build algorithm that can alert if its amount potentially can prevent normal sleep. PocketBeagle is small enough for this purpose and can be connected with light sensors and programmed to alert on overexposure to the blue light using a simple blinking led. Additionally it will be interesting to export this data and correlate with sleep data that I'm getting from my smartwatch.

     

    Over holiday season I have some extra time. So I hope to implement this idea and share my findings.

     

    Sergey

  • in reply to ninjatrent

    Hi Trent,

     

    Thank you for the information! It is very useful.

    The video from Derek Molloy covers basics of BBB integration with OpenCV and a good starting point. I'd like to understand what kind of processing limitations I can hit by using OpenCV for semantic segmentation of the video stream with the board. I'll try to explore it.

     

    Sergey