curamSenes E-ink Display

This project is a continuation of curamsenes, one of the finalists of the contest Reinventing Healthy Spaces. The purpose of the project was to provide medical information to elderly people, possibly with vision problems. The screen built into the contest device was not the most suitable for this. Currently the screens that offer the best visibility are e-ink, but we want to keep the touch interface, which seems the most intuitive for simple actions.

The device connects to the same backend and it can read a subset of the same events (medical appointments and medical dispensation). It is not implemented the Bluetooth connection check with the beacon device nor the heart test events. But in a new evolution of the device, we will add these characteristics and a good status led.

The brain of this device is a raspberry pi, running Raspbian. The is a USB audio device connected to reproduce the audio when a new event is received. The display is a Waveshare e-ink 6' display connected by an IT8951 to the raspberry pi. I have use python to develop this display and the library used to interface with it is Greg D Mayers one.

We have also used the official python library to connect to AWS IoT.

In front of the e-ink device, there is a USB digitalize, that translates all the touch events to mouse events, It is a pity haven`t able to found one with the same measures.