Smart Blind Stick

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.

Smart blind stick.

Fitted with radio frequency rf transmitter and. 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. 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. 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.

This arduino smart blind stick project requires two separate circuits. Of course you can use a vibrator motor in place of buzzer and advance a lot more using your creativity. The otherwise simple looking stick is no less than a magic wand for its targeted users. User reviews wewalk is an incredible idea and has game changing potential to help blind and low vision sanjay batra google.

The device is designed with an intention to sort out common issues faced by the blind people while using traditional sticks. 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. Read arduino isp log. Learn how to make smart blind stick with arduino arduino project.

Through this the blind person can aware about the obstacles in front of him. 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. It cost me just 10 to make one. 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.

In 1931 in france guilly d herbemont launched a. 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. Here we will make a smart stick for blind person by using arduino and ultrasonic sensor. The other is a small remote rf transmitter circuit which will be used to locate the main circuit.

I used ultrasonic sensor for detecting the obstacles.