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Wearables offer an attractive platform for interacting intelligently with our environment and ourselves. Commercially available wearables are not aimed at the academic/research environment. They have proprietary protocols, do not willingly share recorded data or information on how it was processed and filtered, and do not have the right combinations of sensors or actuators in the desired positions or sensitivity. Given the scarce resources that academic groups have, their wearables have rarely progressed past a very bulky prototype stage. But it is now possible to create a complete custom wearable within a month at very low cost. This tutorial will teach the skills necessary to design and fabricate a Bluetooth based wrist or ring wearable that can wirelessly send sensor data to a smartphone or computer for data analysis and receive wireless commands to actuate sensors. Given the basic schematics for a circuit, you will learn how to choose and source components, lay out and route a circuit board, send the design off to a local fabrication house, and create the finished device when the printed circuit boards return a week later. I will introduce helpful open source software, teach basic industry standards and the properties of various sensors and actuators, and describe features that are especially useful for wearables. |
