Hardware

As the final design project of my Praxis II course, I worked with the Toronto Bonsai Society to develop Bonsense, an iOS application that helps bonsai beginners monitor the moisture levels of their plants using computer vision and IoT sensor. We hope that this can make the art of bonsai more accessible to everyone.

In the 24-hour BMEC hackathon, we used few-shot transfer learning with CNN-LSTM to detect slight hand tremors of neurosurgeons during surgery, ensembled with a simple majority voting system with a sliding window time-frequency analysis. This triggers an intervention using a wearable device consistent of servo actuators to stabalize the hand of the surgeon during operation.

Have you ever felt frustrated by constantly switching your gaze between the lecture slides and your notebook and subsequently missing your professor’s fast paced content? We set out to solve this common classroom challenge by creating a wearable smartglasses that merges both visual fields into one.