This week, we finalized the general idea of our capstone project. Initially, we were weighing between building an embedded system that makes food or drinks e.g, eggs, cocktail, boba tea or something computer-vision based to guide the blind. After hours of discussion and feedback from the faculty, we settled on building a smart wearable belt that can give the visually-impaired users intuitively actionable feedback.
With this idea, we delved deeper and fleshed out more details : naming the project The Bat Belt as the product involves echolocation; comparing existing tech gadgets built by university lab, startups and another capstone team to the traditional cane and our concept; establishing a wider obstacle detection range with more granular haptic feedback as one of our core appeals …
We also recognize the challenges and risks that lie ahead (such as incompatible sensor and microcontroller, software integration with depth camera, mapping multiple sensor data algorithmically into a cohesive feedback) and planned accordingly as detailed in our proposal.