Inspiration
Students tend to get bored studying alone and distracted studying in groups so what if we could make them focus while also staying engaged in groups.
What it does
It pits students against eachother in a interactive kinect based gesture control study revision game.
How we built it
We built it using various backend frameworks to process notes, output text to speech, track user data, track gestures, as well as hardware to alert users of game flow and to give the camera a better and more accurate reading of user actions.
Challenges we ran into
Arduino Uno Q was a new board recently developed after the Qualcomm acquisition of arduino. The board had little documentation so when we ran into connectivity issues, there wasn't much help online or in person to fix them.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were among the first groups to fix said arduino connectivity issues and we never knew the extent to which we could integrate the hardware with software to make an enjoyable user experience.
What we learned
We learned off of eachothers software, hardware, and artistic skills, allowing each of us not only a unique contribution to the project, but also an opportunity to teach our teammates.
What's next for Lux
We probably want to smooth out some of the gesture based controls by tuning detection, we want to smooth out design as it was limited by build time, and some of the motor control was very jittery so that can be smoothed out too.
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