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UC Bekeley Critical Making | Spring 2015 | Professor Eric Paulos

Rapid-prototyping project around the prompt of augmenting a form of human-powered transportation.

Our team produced a pair of networked crutches that used accelerometers, pressure sensors, and gps to compile a map describing terrain difficulty. This map would then be distributed to other users in the network and used to suggest alternate routes for those on crutches. For added effect, pressure & acceleration values were transmuted into a color range for difficulty that was also reflected in the user interface of the crutches via LED strip.

Project Team:

• - Xio Alvarez (industrial, interaction design)

• - Lee Hamstra (electrical engineering)

• - Katie Lee (arduino programming)

• - Brian Ly (web developer, video)