/BuzzLightShirt

A lilypad-based wearable project for a shirt that monitors your posture and activity

Primary LanguageArduino

Buzz LightShirt

A shirt that monitors your posture and encourages deep breathing exercises. An accelerometer allows for easy anytime feedback on how well you're doing.

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The project has the following features

  • Continuously monitor the wearer's posture and inform them using vibrations if corrective action is needed.
  • At regular pre-defined intervals, initiate a deep breathing exercise. This can also be manually triggered using a push button.
  • Track the performance of the above 2 parameters and communicate this to the user in the form of an LED.

Components used:

  • Lilypad mainboard
  • RGB LED
  • Vibration motor
  • Lilypad accelerometer ADXL335

Repository Structure

The sketch under buzzlightshirt is the main program. test-sketches contains code written in the intermediate steps for testing various components.