Final thoughts:
In this engineering project, we were tasked to engineer a device that shows our understanding of energy transfer (Chemical energy to electrical energy). Throughout this project, there have been many materials I’ve never encountered and used before which I’ve had the chance to learn how to use them. Before confirming the final idea, I thought we would run into many challenges and thought that making a heart rate monitor was not possible in such a short amount of time. However, instead of abandoning this idea George and I decided to challenge ourselves by working with materials we had little knowledge about. (Arduino UNO, OLED Screen, Pulse monitor) After the successful testing of our heart tracking device, we could have made many ideas and changes to this device. For example, if we were provided with more time, we could have done more research on improving the accuracy of the bpm tracker as it was not really accurate at some times. For design and presentation purposes, I felt like we should have had a larger OLED screen because the screen was small, making it a bit hard to see the information projected. In conclusion, this project was a challenge for both of us, but at the same time, a successful one.