Safety Glove

The Safety Glove

One issue that plagues our world, especially for women, is the risk of being abducted, beaten, or violated at night. Often a strategy used to combat these risks is to travel in numbers, however that is not always a viable solution. Introducing the Safety Glove! A wearable alarm that triggers when loud impact sounds are heard, and when a struggle is detected.

In order to insure the design to be at least somewhat practical, it needed to be attached to something that could be worn, as to make it an item encouraged for being carried around. I decided to use one of my exercise gloves as a desirable shell. Next, I acquired my Adafruit Playground express, and programmed two phases the glove would enter depending on situation- a force trauma phase, and a noise detect phase- both differentiated by color. The power supply for the glove is a battery not so aesthetically placed on the bottom with tape.

The force phase, which flashes blue and red, has a threshold of 8gs of force, making it trigger on a fall, push, or tackle. The sound phase, which detects noises louder than speaking, can be triggered by a scream, punch, or clap.

code used:

https://makecode.com/_6oWAzfXPefW0