How to Not Read the Room - Creating Wearables with ML

• from Strange Loop 2019
• necklace of blinking tiles made to respond to those around the wearer
• changes the colors and patterns based on preset patterns and the number of people it detects
• HARDWEAR-> raspberry pi, arduino, camera, LEDs, battery
• camera is around neck, the other hardware is strapped around the waist
• SOFTWARE-> NodeJS, Tensorflow.js, C++
• had previously made things that responded to other people --- one responded to what she
• was saying, another responded to input from an app
• necklace was to force her to be social --- it was crazy and obnoxious when she wasn't
• around people, but if she was around people it would turn off