Slouch

Now I love my mom and everything but all her nagging about my posture has really gotten annoying. This hackNJIT I realized that there were so many students and not a single parent to nag about the poor posture happening around us. Slouch would change that. Slouch is a wearable sensor and alerting device that would alert its wearer of bad posture. Perfect for those long coding sessions, and late-night homework grinds. Slouch features a secret hidden feature - a sleep detector. If Slouch catches you napping it will send out a long and continuous buzzer to wake you up because everyone known sleep is for the weak 😉👍.

This project was done in Python using a Raspberry Pi as well as a sensor pack that featured an accelerometer and gyroscope to detect the posture of the wearer's back. And alerted the wearer to correct their posture or wake up through a buzzer. The Raspberry Pi was connected to your laptop through a TCP connection and allowed you to view your posture data.

Shoutout to developers Connor Criscoe and Jonpierre Grajales who were part of the Slouch team