Maheswaran, B., & Russell, L. B., & Denoncourt, C. M. (2020, June), Navigating and Energy-Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking Directions  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34992

\bibitem{asee_peer_34992}
  Maheswaran, B., \& Russell, L. B., \& Denoncourt, C. M. (2020, June), \emph{Navigating and Energy-Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking Directions}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34992

Bala Maheswaran, Liza Brooke Russell, and Cailey Moy Denoncourt.  "Navigating and Energy-Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking Directions".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34992 Internet.  07 Oct, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34992}
  Bala Maheswaran, Liza Brooke Russell, and Cailey Moy Denoncourt.
  "Navigating and Energy-Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking Directions".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34992 Internet.  07 Oct, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Across the world, navigating city streets can be a daunting task. Between avoiding cars, bikers, or other people, having to look down at a phone for directions not only creates a potential hazard, but also distracts from enjoying the surrounding city. As students on a college campus in the middle of a city, Google Maps walking directions are a common method of finding one’s way around. However, using Google Maps still poses the same, potentially hazardous problems. Thus, we explored the idea of creating insoles that could fit into one’s shoes and vibrate corresponding to the direction one should turn. Furthermore, with the mindset of trying to utilize unharnessed energy from our everyday lives, we aimed to use piezoelectrics to harness energy from the steps taken by the user. This paper examines the solution of using an Arduino Nano and an HC-05 Bluetooth receiver to connect to Google Maps, making the corresponding insole vibrate in the direction one should turn and further innovating this design by incorporating piezoelectric elements. The unharnessed energy from human movement has a huge potential to save a significant amount of energy, even in the simplest of ways. Thus, by harnessing the energy from steps using piezoelectrics, the vibrating insole has the ability to generate its own power. This navigating insole could also potentially be of great use for individuals with visual impairments
AU  - Bala Maheswaran
AU  - Liza Brooke Russell
AU  - Cailey Moy Denoncourt
CY  - Virtual On line 
DA  - 2020/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Navigating and Energy-Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking Directions
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