Steampunk Bots

  Closing out This is the final entry to this blog, In the last blog I explained some applications and the Internet of Things feature of the Steam Punk Hat as well as all the features we had on it.  In this blog I want to pass over the work as well as share a final demo of the product we created.  To summarise in 10 weeks we went through 5 iterations: Mapping movement,  Working with heart rate sensors, Breath Mapping, Cloud dashboard design and feeding everything in. Speaker and sounds from a dfPlayer Mini module. Every iteration had some creative elements apart from the coding, A lot of brainstorming and designing even 3D printing. The mapping of these sensors was mapped to hardware such as buzzer sounds, lights and servos. The main challenge was to make a stable and reliable mapping.  A new addition to this iteration was this DFPlayer Mini board that allows to play sounds from an sd card and comes with a microbit extension. What do we have in the end?  A ...

  So far the functions of the Steam Punk     Hat are:   Accelerometer tracking movement Gyroscope tracking the tilt of the head Tunnelling Breath to the microphone to create a sensor measuring breath in and out Pulse meter measuring the BPM  The hat has a bellows with an actuator servo moving up and down.     It’s now time to put it all together and have this data be sent to a cloud dashboard where decisions could be made based on the certain data values. This project now enters the smart wearable tech sector. Wearable devices are becoming more and more popular. Lots of people are wearing smart watches every day but there is research being done today technologies like wearable clothing. This project fits nicely here as we have a lot of sensors that give a lot of information about the human body for example:   Movement: counting the steps and how fast the person is going   Pulse : The heart rate of the person, are they stressed, maybe low pres...