Smart Blind Stick

In 1921 james biggs a photographer from bristol who became blind after an accident and was uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible.

Smart blind stick.

Here we will make a smart stick for blind person by using arduino and ultrasonic sensor. User reviews wewalk is an incredible idea and has game changing potential to help blind and low vision sanjay batra google. This project is a smart stick which is capable of detecting any obstacle detect water and corners and even allow the user to find the stick if anyhow missed by the user by pressing a remote switch. Fitted with radio frequency rf transmitter and.

Introduction presently blind people use a white stick as a tool for direction when they move or walk. I used ultrasonic sensor for detecting the obstacles. It cost me just 10 to make one. He has named this stick as smart blind stick.

Through this the blind person can aware about the obstacles in front of him. In 1931 in france guilly d herbemont launched a. Smart blind stick blind people who suffer from a severe reduction in vision that cannot be corrected with conventional means such as refractive correction or medication and reduces a person s ability to function at certain or all tasks. The device is designed with an intention to sort out common issues faced by the blind people while using traditional sticks.

Blind people have used canes as mobility tools for centuries but it was not until after world war i that the white cane was introduced. The smart blind stick automatically detects the obstacle in front of the person and give him a response to the person by vibrating the stick and also with a warning sound. Of course you can use a vibrator motor in place of buzzer and advance a lot more using your creativity. One is the main circuit which will be mounted on the blind man s stick.

The other is a small remote rf transmitter circuit which will be used to locate the main circuit. The otherwise simple looking stick is no less than a magic wand for its targeted users. Read arduino isp log. This smart stick will have an ultrasonic sensor to sense distance from any obstacle ldr to sense lighting conditions and a rf remote using which the blind man could remotely locate his stick all the feedbacks will be given to the blind man through a buzzer.

In these days we are talking about flying cars but these people have been using just a plain stick blind student gifted wewalk smart cane.