Question 1 Find and list 5 websites, newsgroups, email lists, or other publicly

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Question 1

Find and list 5 websites, newsgroups, email lists, or other publicly available electronic resources that can help you learn more about the trends, challenges, research, products, and events in microcontrollers/microprocessors, embedded systems, and wearable technologies.

Question 2

Check out the winner projects from 2009 to 2018 of the Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup at http://www.innovationworldcup.com/hall-of-fame/?wc=7 and the TI University Program student projects at http://e2e.ti.com/group/universityprogram/students/m/students_repository/default.aspx.

Then write a short article to introduce your favorite project. The article should include:

1. The information of the project developers

2. What is this project about?

3. Their methods and results (briefly)

4. Why do you like this project best?

5. References (e.g. link of the project)

Explanation / Answer

Quetion 1
Electronic Design - https://www.electronicdesign.com/
New electronics - http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/
EE Times - https://www.eetimes.com/
Embedded - https://www.embedded.com/
electronicsforu - https://electronicsforu.com/

Question 2

Project name - Smart Pill Box
This is developed by Jackie Leverett and Zach Wasson.
The project is about tackling the issues of medication of the people. It is about providing a visual verification system that will remind patients to take their medications until they provide visual proof of taking pills out of the box and ingesting them. The primary target is for patients who forget taking medication or have forgotten after taking them.
Here the basic assumption is that the patient is honest and is not trying to try the software. Also, the box of the pills is filled on a timely basis. This project aims at eliminating the overdoses caused by patients who forget that they already took their medication and prevent exacerbating diseases by not taking them on time.

Task Smart Pill Box joins a BeagleBoard with a screen and a webcam. The product was created utilizing the Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) library. Utilizing this library, the program recognizes the substance of a patient and after that endeavours to track a hand as it moves towards the patient's mouth. This move will establish the making of the pill. The product will likewise tell a patient in the event that he/she has taken his/her pills as of now for the day. The clock is kept precise via naturally refreshing over the web instantly after the Smart Pill Box is turned on. In the event that coveted, a log record could monitor the patient's pill-taking.

They have faced challenges with Linux, opencv and video processing because of their inexperience. So they have done their development in windows. So they have written the code in windows and later compiled it in Linux. They have used hand tracking using a green band. This allows tracking the hand.

I personally like this project because it tackles the issue head-on using image processing.
It has a good approach and they have worked well for their setbacks in the project. Also, they have used minimal and the most cost-efficient approach for building the project.

References -
http://e2e.ti.com/group/universityprogram/students/m/students_repository/664730
https://youtu.be/_nR1959cPd8
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/File:Smart_pill_box.zip

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