Meal Monitor
Meal Monitor
Checks the salt and saline concentration in your food!
Morgan
Harmful digestive diseases and medical conditions can prevent many of the population from eating large amounts of salt, saline, and other ionized particles in their food. With Meal Monitor, the GoPiGo3 robot uses its sensors to detect concentrations of these substances in your food—making sure that breakfast, lunch and dinner are good to GoPiGO!
One of these sensors will be the camera sensor, which will pick up on certain dyes used in salts and other ionized foods that deviate from the composition of the mixture. By programming the GoPiGo3 camera sensor to detect certain colors, trial runs with dyed salt will be performed.
Red Substance-Kosher Salt
Blue Substance-Flake Salt
Yellow Substance-Sea Salt
The camera is trained to pick up on certain colors and emit a small beep that acts as an alarm to inform whoever is dining that their food contains high levels of salt. The robot’s primary mechanism is the safety of the diner.
This is such an interesting idea! I most definitely wouldn’t have thought that our gopigo could do this. Love the pun!
thank you!
Wouldnt this get confused between salt and other white food products?
There would be certain dyes present in the salts to help the robot differentiate!
This is such a cool idea! One question: How did you set the hues of the salt so that were picked up by the color sensor?
thanks! I used coding from our color workshop notebook to help differentiate between the color salts, and tried to set the gradient to pick up on a shaded color.
I love this idea! So unique and I bet if you had a bit more time and resources available you could make a great product out of this.