BPD-Cure
I got this idea since I’ve been suffering from some mental disease these years. And I know a disease called “Bipolar affective disorder (BPD)”, which is also known as manic-depressive illness, a common complex, polygenic disorder characterised by recurrent cyclic episodes of mania and depression.
Our project is designed to introduce people to this disease and raise people’s awareness to take care of and cure the patients with this disease.
I’ve did some research about magnetofluid and electromagnet, so we will use them in our project. The magneto fluid will act as the patient. When it moves actively, it shows that the patient is in the situation of mania. When it doesn’t move, it shows that the patient is depressed. We will use 3D printing to create the patient’s body. And the electromagnet will be used to control the magneto fluid.
The user will act as a doctor or a friend to interact with the patient. They will use different method to cure the patient, like drug therapy, psychotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy and light therapy. We will try to use like buttons and sensors to built interactive devices and let users learn more about the disease and the treatment of it. We may use processing to show guidance to audience and assist them with the understanding of the device.
In general, the first step of our project is to decide what exactly the interactive part should be like. Then we will build the circuit and write the code. After testing the code, 3D printing and maybe cardboard will be used to create the body of the patient and the appearance of the interactive part.
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