Wearable Final — Closer
I worked with Lily for the final project of Wearable. The concept of our project comes from an embarrassing situation in our daily life. According to the report of Time magazine, one in 50 people is suffering from face blindness and always have the humiliating situation of meeting people who are familiar with you but unable to recall the name or the relationship of them. Even if there is no face blindness, we will face the situation of forgetting people’s name and not knowing how to respond to them. In order to reduce such social pain and discomfort, we would like to design a wearable device to help users quickly remember other’s name.
The device recognizes the person through face recognition technology, and then displays the name on the matching watch, so that the user can see the name secretly. The camera of face recognition is installed in a special mobile phone case, since the position of it is at the same position with the camera of phone. Thus, our camera is able to appear in front of the public, but it will keep the privacy of the user has the face blindness problem.
Sketch
Material:
Esp 32
Long cable cam
USB to TTF
LCD
Phone case
Small bag
Watch band
Etc.
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Based on our idea, we began to develop the project.
We chose an unusual micro board esp32 cam to complete the project. It is more convenient than Arduino to achieve face recognition, but we are not very familiar with its function, which brings a lot of trouble to the later work.
(We even bought two kinds of boards for testing)
First of all, we need to make sure that the function of the camera can work properly, so we tested the camera first.
Esp32_cam testing
And then we started working face recognition. In the first step, we need five photos of the face from different angles to let the machine analyze the face data, and then save them to the SM card and upload them to esp32. For example, when the camera detects me, it shows Sharon.
LCD:
In order to have a better look, our LCD screen has also chosen an unusual one, so linking to esp32 has become a more difficult challenge. After many attempts, we finally choose to use this animation design.
To make is more like a watch, we combined the LCD screen with a watch band.
Phone Case:
We bought a phone case and another small bag, and combined them together, so that there is place to hold esp32.
In order to reach the phone camera position, we changed a long cable camera as well.
Final deliverables:
(We digged a small hole of the clothes to hide the wires and connect the esp 32 with the LCD screen.)
Code:
