Smart Blind Stick

In these days we are talking about flying cars but these people have been using just a plain stick blind student gifted wewalk smart cane.

Smart blind stick.

Read arduino isp log. Smart blind stick blind people who suffer from a severe reduction in vision that cannot be corrected with conventional means such as refractive correction or medication and reduces a person s ability to function at certain or all tasks. Here we will make a smart stick for blind person by using arduino and ultrasonic sensor. One is the main circuit which will be mounted on the blind man s stick.

This arduino smart blind stick project requires two separate circuits. The smart blind stick automatically detects the obstacle in front of the person and give him a response to the person by vibrating the stick and also with a warning sound. Introduction presently blind people use a white stick as a tool for direction when they move or walk. In 1921 james biggs a photographer from bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible.

He has named this stick as smart blind stick. Of course you can use a vibrator motor in place of buzzer and advance a lot more using your creativity. Learn how to make smart blind stick with arduino arduino project. The other is a small remote rf transmitter circuit which will be used to locate the main circuit.

Blind s mate is a combination of smart stick and a mobile app that can alert people of impending obstacles and water pits while providing audio feed to the users about obstacles encountered. The otherwise simple looking stick is no less than a magic wand for its targeted users. In 1931 in france guilly d herbemont launched a. This smart stick will have an ultrasonic sensor to sense distance from any obstacle ldr to sense lighting conditions and a rf remote using which the blind man could remotely locate his stick all the feedbacks will be given to the blind man through a buzzer.

Through this the blind person can aware about the obstacles in front of him. This project is a smart stick which is capable of detecting any obstacle detect water and corners and even allow the user to find the stick if anyhow missed by the user by pressing a remote switch. I used ultrasonic sensor for detecting the obstacles. Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries but it was not until after world war i that the white cane was introduced.

User reviews wewalk is an incredible idea and has game changing potential to help blind and low vision sanjay batra google.