#smartstrides

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These Blue Devils stand out in a big way.

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SmartStrides is now BioMetrix

We are partnering with a company called GTI to help us get through development at a more professional stage. They've helped us locate and start working with a company called Well Being Digital, a wearable electronics manufacturer, to produce our pilot prototypes. These pilots will be, wireless, fully flexible, small, and thin, and in an innovative new breed of rugged wearable casing.

We've received the support of an independent company in developing a custom double-sided substrate for adhering the device to the user's body and will  be developing and manufacturing pilots in late July to early august. We plan to complete a functional mobile app by this time as well.

We will be testing them live with Duke Track and Field and Duke Sports Medicine come mid to late August and hope to publicly demo the device in September in partnership with Duke University and the Innovation CoLab.

Anyone interested in becoming involved with our team, becoming a product tester, or learning more about our kickstarter launch can sign up to get updates at biometrixtech.com

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If you asked Ivonna Dumanyan just five years ago where she’d be today, starting a running tech company at Duke University would never have crossed her mind. But thanks to a lot of hard work and the entrepreneurial resources provided across Duke’s campus, her present-day reality has outstripped her imagination.

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Project Notebook: Smart Strides - A Quick Update

We are able to detect the degree of pronation now. our next step it to enable the Bluetooth we have been working on to make it wireless. We are also waiting on a new, more sensitive gyro and incorporating a pressure sensitive surface to better understand what is happening on the plantar surface. We are chugging along and making improvements were we can.

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Ivonna making some great progress on her #smartstrides sensor project.

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Project Notebook: Smart Strides - A few updates

9/09/14

I finally managed to sew together a reliable pressure network using conducive fabric, conductive thread, neoprene, and velostat. It's working great with a graphical representation of the pressure variation in 4 quadrants using Processing. I am handing it over to my partner Brianca, to work on some more models. My next suggestion is "the epicenter" model: assuming near equal weight distribution in certain areas of the foot, we will partition our network more intelligently!

9/21/14

Jason Oettinger help get our sparkfun 9-DOF board up and working with a foot motion sim running on Processing. See the video! We got it to work with our cheaper, smaller Kootek gyros too! I'm finally ready to pull the signals and identify those pronators!

9/25/14

Scanned and 3D printed my foot with the Help of Austin Powers in the MPS west. We had a great time figuring out the quirks of the system but eventually got a good looking foot printed. I am going to use this model and a basic setup with a pendulum to simulate arch collapse so I can multitask during data collection/ filtration/ pronation identification!

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For the SmartStrides grant project, Ivonna used the Multimedia Project Studio's 3d scanner to make a model of her foot for testing orthotics