Water Reminder

The Project

The project is to remind the elderly to drink water. At the start, the micro;bit would tell the elderly to drink water and if you don't it will say "you didn't sip water 1 time(s)." then it will show the number and play a melody 4 times then play the coffin dance. The process will repeat but, if you drink water the second time it will say "Yay, you have sipped water 1 time(s)." It will then play the Beethoven music and repeat the process after 2 hours and 30 minutes.

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Team Comments

We chose this project after we came to a consensus on a problem to solve. We were first exposed to the problem of dehydration when Lonnie's grandparents forgot to drink water every day.

Whenever we were trying to drink water instead of waiting for one hour the code made it so you had to sip the water for one hour. The way we fixed this problem is by adding the drink water signal at the beginning so after it says to drink you just have to sip the water for 3 seconds.

If we had more time we would want to create even better prototypes. Some improvements we would consider would be to have two v2 micro;bits one for the water bottle and one for a caretaker.