Carpal tunnel prevention wearable

MakeHarvard was the firs time I ever won something at a hackathon. When I landed in Boston with my friend Fillip, we had no plan or idea on what we'd do. We teamed up with Amishi Mittal and Gabriel Nech, arriving at a 'good enough' idea to pursue a few hours in.

After discussing the difficulty of managing carpal tunnel syndrome, we designed proaCTive to solve the unaddressed problem of holding users accountable for their physical therapy. The wearable device used a 6 DOF IMU and a pressure sensor to guage how sedentary a user was, and to track if they were actually performing their physical therapy exercises. Reminders were presented with vibration at dynamic intervals dependent on activity, and would persist until the user began to stretch.

I was responsible for the device packaging/mounting, electrical design, and sensor selection. Our wearable operated off a 9V battery which was stepped down to 3.3V for the ESP32 and sensors.

We took down 3rd place overall. I made a slide deck for the pitch with renders/more information, which can be found here.