This project is a smart walking stick designed to assist visually impaired people by detecting obstacles using ultrasonic sensors and providing vibration alerts.
Visually impaired individuals face difficulties in detecting nearby obstacles, which can lead to accidents.
- To build an assistive device for safe navigation
- To understand ultrasonic sensor working
- To apply embedded system concepts in real-world applications
- Arduino / Microcontroller
- Ultrasonic Sensor
- Vibration Motor
- Embedded C (Arduino IDE)
- Detects obstacles in front of the user
- Provides vibration alerts based on distance
- Simple and cost-effective design
- Ultrasonic sensor measures the distance to obstacles
- Microcontroller processes the distance data
- Vibration motor alerts the user when an obstacle is detected
- Ultrasonic sensor interfacing
- Distance measurement logic
- Hardware debugging and testing
- Designing assistive technology solutions
- Adding voice alerts
- Improving detection range
- Making the device more portable