Georgia Tech offers a course called Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing (CS 4605), teaching “technical foundations of sensing, computing, and communication that are the prerequisite for smooth and seamless interactions in a continuous manner”.
In reality, it’s just a project class where you have to develop something before the semester ends, or you fail the class.
To prevent that from happening, me and my groupmates developed a torture machine pain measurement tool.
For some context, specialized tools help neuroscientists better understand types and thresholds of pain, but these only exist in specialized clinics and cost an arm and a leg. Outside of such labs, medical professionals rely on crude tools such as ice, pokers, or pinchers which as not consistent nor quantifiable.
Mentored by professor Alexander Adams, we were therefore directed to develop a low-cost tool to apply and measure bend, pressure, and temperature.