The Perfect Pour

This weekend, I joined Silicon Chef Hardware Hackathon. Our team (Veronica, Stephanie, Judith, Yan & Me) created a smart beer cozy! An Arduino based project that can detect how well you are pouring and prevents you from spilling the beer. We used a 3-axis Accelerometer to detect the tilt angel. Messages are displayed in the LCD screen to signal you whether you are pouring too fast or too slow. And guess what? We won an Arduino project book as the prize! The code is in github.

Tracking

Developed an Arduino-based tracking system. Used  MPU-6050 (3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyro, temperature), connected it to the I2C bus of the Arduino to read the raw sensor data. The sensor captures the hand motion. These raw data are then processed through DSP filtering algorithm and  graphically drawn in the monitor using Processing APIs. Code is here. 


Tracking from Nahid Alam on Vimeo.