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  • Date Created: 13 Jun 2015 9:42 AM Date Created
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ATTRACTS: A Smartwatch to prevents Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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13 Jun 2015

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Have you sometimes felt some pains in your wrist? Be careful, because you might get a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) disorder. So what is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a disorder that affects your nerves in the wrist. This disorder makes your nervus medianus compressed when the nerve passes through the tunnel in your wrist (called carpal tunnel, that's why this disorder is called carpal tunnel syndrome).That's why we were inspired to make Attracts, Automatic Treatment for Hand Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Attracts uses Teensy 3.1 as a board. At the first time, we use ATMEGA2560. At that time we created the first prototype with SMD component and it used 0.96" OLED Display. But at that time, it did not work. So next we moved to Arduino Pro mini. It was cool. But the only bad thing is about the speed. It was too slow because our data of exercise and treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome need to be as fast as possible. So then we choose Teensy 3.1 because not only it has a lots of memories besides it has higher clock (Overclock up to 96 MHz !!!). And next we change the LCD display from OLED Display into TFT Display because the screen resolution is better than OLED, besides it is Colorful. we give our smartwatch a lipo charger and lipo battery 3.7V 1000 mAH. And the last thing, we add a Bluesmirf HID Module that we bought from Sparkfun into our smartwatch because we think it will be cool if you have a watch that can be a mouse or a keyboard and you just control it by using your hand and muscle movements. Besides, it can be an exercise of the patient of CTS or non-CTS because you have to move your hand in order to control your computer.


Here is one of ATTRACTS features

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-PJhyOCGY

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to DAB +1
    That would be good too. But this device is not also used for carpal tunnel but also for people who has muscle weakness or post-stroke recovery can also use this Ilham Maulana
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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    Yes of course, when i made the first prototype (there wasn't a Bluetooth module, MPU6050 just an RTC) it was smaller and thinner than the last prototype that i posted above. But at that time it wasn't reach the final goal like the speed and also memory, and also i need lots of ADC pins and Arduino Pro mini just has few ADC pins. Because of that i changed the board into Teensy. Besides Teensy has built-in RTC so i don't need to add RTC module on there. So why the size isn't small yet because i still haven't played with SMD parts (i have tried it before but it wasn't so good at the result and i'm still learning how to solder with SMD part). Maybe next prototype i'll change all modules with the SMD components and also i'll make it more wearable than this

     

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    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    In my opinion, also in a prototyping version it is the worth to start with a smaller choice of the boards anyway. As far as what I know a prototype should be as much near as possible to the final goal, at least to avoid unexpected surprises, e.g. that the project works fine but then can't be done in the real smaller dimensions...

     

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    Thank you for your feedback image. So what part do i need to change about this post?? And also this device still prototype so i need to give evaluation like make it smaller etc

     

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

    That would be good too. But this device is not also used for carpal tunnel but also for people who has muscle weakness or post-stroke recovery can also use this

     

    Ilham Maulana

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    balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

    While reading this post / presentation, to be hones, I have not liked it so much. Maybe the idea is good but should be totally developed, also to make a prototype.

     

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