Inspiration
We were inspired to build AquaPal because of the disregard for water in life. Many people forget to drink their daily recommended water intake of around 3 Liters, causing mild dehydratio. This dehydration can cause brain fog, fatigue, and overall worsen your mood. To counteract this, we developed AquaPal to remind you to hydrate.
What it does
Aqua Pal is an innovative device that is designed to bring balance to peoples lives by providing them assistive reminders to enhance their diet with proper water consumption. This includes distributing water intake through the whole day. Aqua Pal provides this using a smart IoT device designed to link the trivial concept of water management with the world of electronics.
How we built it
We used Onshape to model the geometry of the apparatus, and Arduino IDE to develop the logic of the bottle. Neovim was used to create the front and backends of the website.
Challenges we ran into
Makerhacks are horribly messy. There is no reason for anybody to return materials. Because of this, we had to wait horrendously long times for tools and parts to become available. The 3D printer farm was also extremely unoptimized, thus leading to constant printing errors and inefficiency. That was, until our glorious Nimish Nijhawan stepped in and volunteered at the farm.
Software wise, it was difficult to get our hands on the appropriate sensors as there was a shortage of parts. It was also difficult to adapt to the ESP’s used by the event, as they had utilized a strange framework. Accomplishments that we're proud of We are proud of having put together a sophisticated model of the mechanism in CAD, utilizing print in place hinges, a latch, and a modelled interference screw fit clamp around a central cylinder. All of this was relatively unexplored by us, and we are glad to have experienced and developed these technologies for the first time in the tournament.
We are also proud of our work made in the frontend sector, with a minimalistic sleek UI to give us information on our water bottles using an e-pet style system. This was the first time for many of our team members. The usage of IoT throughout the project represents this further showing our teams ability to learn quick and adapt and is something we have grown to be proud of. What's next for AquaPal Next for AquaPal, we intend to use specific components such as waterproof sensors and smaller batteries in order to further optimize our AquaPal bottle attachment. We wish to lower the overall profile of the bottle as its current geometry is extremely unoptimized.
Built With
The software we used to build this include Onshape, Neovim, Svelte, Node. JS, Python, Flask, Arduino, Espressif Systems Chipsets, and Bambu Slicer.
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