A smart device designed to help reduce fast-paced eating among young individuals.
What is it?
MindEat is a smart device designed to help reduce fast-paced eating among young individuals. Due to stressful lifestyles, many tend to address eating as a mission to complete as fast as possible, which leads to developing rapid eating behavior. MindEat aims to promote healthy and more regulated eating habits, which can improve the users’ lifestyles on both the physical and psychological levels by helping users develop mindful eating routines.
Project Info
Participants: Tohar Ben Shitrit, Noy Bachar, Noga Tal, Eran Fine, Moriel Peleg
Year: 2023
Lecturers: Dr. Noa Morag, Prof. Oren Zuckerman, Mr. Ofir Sadka
Technological Teacher: Mr. Zvika Markfeld
Industrial Teacher: Mr. Sagi Mamane
How does it work?
The 4 stages of the button sends the selected pace and total meal duration to an ESP8266 controller. 1 being a beaming cycle of 6 sec (with total meal of 9 min), to 4 being a beaming cycle of 21 sec (with a total meal of 21 min). It turns on 3 separate led light circuits with 24 LEDs each. Moving the dial from the “o” placement signifies the beginning of the meal. By calculating the relative amount of time that passed, the controller lights the relevant circuits at the desired pace. At first, the lowest circuit turns on. After a third of the meal, the middle circuit turns on in synchronization with the first. At the last third of the meal, all three circuits fade in and out simultaneously. At the end of the meal, the lights turn off, and the data collected is sent to a dedicated database. The data we collect includes fact that they used the device on a given day, the duration of the meal and the level selected by the user. This allows the user to view statistics and monitor his progress over time.