Published July 9, 2023 © GPL3+

Anti-stress kit

Creation of a mini-station to get t° and light levels, stepcounter and deep-breathing counter to get info about body state and relax

BeginnerFull instructions provided1 hour502

Things used in this project

Hardware components

BBC micro:bit board

Software apps and online services

Vittascience

Story

What is stress? It's the body's response to danger and during such response the following changes happen:

1. Body temperature rises up to 37-40°.

2. Following hormones are released in the blood: adrenaline, norepinephrine, cortisol.

3. Blood pressure and body humidity rise.

4. Heart beat and breathing become faster.

5. Muscle hypertonicity appears.

This anti-stress kit will help you to control your state, get information about physiological parameters. You need only a micro:bit and program it with a software.

Code your micro:bit

This video contains the description for a creation of a special mini-station using Vittascience programming interface for micro:bit. Authomatically, if you breath out on the display - the counter will count until 5 to let you know for how long you should keep breathing out to relax your muscles and reduce stress. Meanwhile a variable "steps" will count your steps. If you press a button A, then a total number of the steps that you made by the moment you press the button will appear on the screen. If you press the button B, you will see on the display a temperature level and luminosity level.

Code

Detailed code for the micro:bit

from microbit import *
import utime

steps = 0

while True:
  if microphone.sound_level() > 200:
    display.scroll('1 2 3 4 5', delay=150, wait=True)
  if accelerometer.current_gesture() == 'shake' :
    utime.sleep(1)
    steps = steps + 1
  if button_b.is_pressed():
    display.show('T:')
    display.scroll(str(temperature()), delay=150, wait=True)
    display.show('L:')
    display.scroll(str(display.read_light_level()), delay=150, wait=True)
  if button_a.is_pressed():
    display.scroll(str(steps), delay=150, wait=True)

Credits

Tottillo Healthkits

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I am e-health engineer Diana. Interested in general wellness and awareness of what parameters affect our well-being and health.

Anti-stress kit

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Schematics

Micro:bit with the battery

Code

Detailed code for the micro:bit

Credits

Tottillo Healthkits

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Anti-stress kit

Anti-stress kit

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Schematics

Micro:bit with the battery

Code

Detailed code for the micro:bit

Credits

Tottillo Healthkits

Comments

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