Backbone

Created on 28 Nov 2015

Think Fitbit, but for your spine. Go through your day knowing that we've got your back!

Have you ever felt like your back hurts after working on a coding assignment for too long? Afraid that you might injure yourself doing deadlifts because of bad posture? The brace is equipped with 6 flex sensors and 2 IMUs and measures your posture on a regular interval of 6 seconds. Information is logged by the Particle Photon board that then gets sent to the web app for the user to view. Bad posture plagues our modern world. People are rarely watching for their posture as they go about their daily activities, but many complain later in their lives of the pain that results. What does it mean to be doing that?

@nchoudha

Nikhil Choudhary

@raghavgo

Raghav Goyal

@bvyates

Ben Yates

@ouk

Omkar Kelkar

Part Cost Quantity Total
Polymer Lithium Ion Battery - 2000mAh - PRT-08483 - SparkFun Electroni $12.95 1 $12.95
2000mAh Battery
SparkFun Power Cell - LiPo Charger/Booster - PRT-11231 - SparkFun Elec $19.95 1 $19.95
Battery Charger
Particle Photon Kit - KIT-13345 - SparkFun Electronics $29.00 2 $58.00
Particle Photon
Flex Sensor 4.5" - SEN-08606 - SparkFun Electronics $12.95 6 $77.70
Long Flex Sensor
Ribbon Cable - 10 wire (15ft) - CAB-10647 - SparkFun Electronics $4.95 1 $4.95
10 Wire ribbon
SparkFun 6 Degrees of Freedom IMU Digital Combo Board - ITG3200/ADXL34 $39.95 2 $79.90
IMU
Amazon.com : VELCRO Brand - 3/8-Inch Thin Fasteners, Premated, Set of $6.78 2 $13.56
Velcro
1/4"DIA X 1/16"THICK Radial Magnet Inc. | Sensors, Transducers | DigiK $0.17 100 $17.00
100 Magnet disks
500 Service Unavailable Error $7.11 1 $7.11
Fabric strip
SparkFun LiPo Charger Basic - Micro-USB - PRT-10217 - SparkFun Electro $7.95 1 $7.95
Spare Battery Charger
Project Totals: 117 $299.07
Track 1 Base Budget: $250.00
Preferred Vendor Budget Bonus: $50.00
Remaining Budget: $0.93
Nikhil Choudhary 15 Jan 2016, 1:09 a.m. EST
Got the website up and running - it's live at backboner.azurewebsites.net!
Nikhil Choudhary 15 Jan 2016, 3:34 a.m. EST
Ack - we've hit a roadblock. The IMUs can't seem to connect to the same photon board. Ben Yates working hard and getting it together!
Raghav Goyal 15 Jan 2016, 8:36 a.m. EST
Some last minute hacking with Nikhil Choudhary to wrap up the webapp!
Nikhil Choudhary 15 Jan 2016, 3:24 p.m. EST
Our model, Omkar Kelkar, seems to have some really bad posture! Come down to see what's wrong with him and how Backboner protects him from further injury!