I've built a Neck Monitor to Fix my Pain | Soldering & Assembly | Elite Worm
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Content:
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Concept
0:40 Applying solder paste to the PCB
1:10 Populating the PCB
1:50 Reflow
2:00 PCBWay sponsor video
2:17 Hand soldering
2:35 3D printed enclosure & battery installation
3:40 Test
4:15 Power measurement
4:57 Charging procedure
5:06 Instagram & final conclusion
This is a tiny electronic device I designed to fix my morning neck pain. This first version is based on a cheap ATtiny85 microcontroller, but after having some trouble with the limited amount of inputs and outputs available during the designing phase, I might switch to an ESP32 in the next revision.
This project is meant to do something really simple, yet crucial! Every night, I tend to unconsciously switch my body to a position that feels confortable but causes some stress in my muscles. That leads to having a sore and stiff neck morning after.
This device has some nice features such as a mini vibration motor, an electronic switch, and a 3.7 V LiPo battery with an onboard charger. This time, I used 0402 sized resistors and capacitors, just to maximize my space.
I hope you enjoy the video! Stay tuned for the next one.
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After you told where you would attach the device, I understood the choice of the vibration motor way better 😏.
Seriously though, very cool project.
Hope it resolves your neck pains.
Sew a pocket to the front of a tshirt and put a tennis ball in it, this is how a lot of people stop snoring (except they put the pocket on the back)
Sounds more convenient than kicking every 3 minutes...
I find it funny that I wake up with a headache for the same reason and upon opening TH-cam this is the first video that I saw....
Great project! keep the good videos coming :)
Welcome to the club 😂 Thank you!
If you're a coffee drinker; keep in mind that waking up with a headache is frequently a sign of Caffeine withdrawal. If your headache goes away within 15 minutes of your morning coffee, that'd be pretty solid evidence. Have a coffee before an aspirin :-) Buy this device anyway - it's a great idea, and not sleeping on your stomach is preventative too!
@@R.Daneel yeah I can recognize coffee withdrawal headaches but those are a bit different and correlate with my stiff neck.
Good point tho :)
@@draglorde I know exactly what you mean. For me, behind my right eye - neck, not caffeine. Whole brain - caffeine. 🙂
Nice project. And kudos for just going and doing it, without making it a kickstarter. It's so refreshing to see people taking an idea to the product stage without resorting to crowdfunding. And yes, as you probably can guess, I been burnt enough times by crowdfunding.
This is definitely good news for people with neck pain 👍
Nice job. I have an anti-snoring device called a “smart Nora”, it uses a pump to inflate an airbag under the pillow to get you to turn over.
Interesting! I will check it out. Thanks 😉
Sounds like that makes a bit of noise
@@thomasvnl it’s actually really quiet. The pump goes under the bed in a fabric box. Just a pipe up to the pillow airbag. Stupidly expensive for what it is though and I'm not sure it really stopped me snoring, but it did make me change sleeping position. It broke after 4 years though. I think the pump batteries have given up. On my list of things to fix.
Remarkable project ! Great ingenuity ! Great job !
I love all your projects !!!
this content is very underrated
Good work, keep it up!
Awesome project. I don't have this issue, but it'll help a lot of people.
complexe solutions for simple problems ..........;
If you want to get into some weird stuff, maybe you could use electric shocks to wake yourself up? However, with the big resistance of the skin, that'd need a high voltage regulator and you need to ensure good skin contact.
Thanks Vincent! I already thought about that, but I was too afraid of how the comment section would look like after posting the video 😂
@@EliteWorm Oh I'd be more worried about you, especially if you wear it on your waistband. Wouldn't want it to become dislodged which would also lead to erroneous readings...
As for weight, you'd be surprised how heavy stuff on your waistband can be. I sleep with my insulin pump clipped to the waistband of my pyjamas. The pump weighs about 150 grams, and has never gotten off the waistband. Truth be told the biggest annoyance is the tube getting... tangled.
The probem with that is people who have nerve damage won't feel it and the people who have heart people might be a problem and a liability.
very interesting. is it possible for you to publish the files or at least a list of components? would be very cool.
thanks
now this is intersting, post a video when you are open for orders, FYI I am from oversea
Very interesting. I also sleep on the side or on stomach and as I get older more ofter wake up with stiff neck and sleeping on my back is a no go for me. Looking forward to seeing v2 and long term practicality comment
Jo q vabeza !!eres un artista
Cheers!
This is brilliant, I would love to buy one!! (but can it be made so that its upside down)?
Awesome...
I thought it was going to be a device to wake you up if you have fallen asleep at the desk, face down and mushed against the keyboard. 😉
The warning when sleeping on your back deludes me though, thats the best sleeping position for your neck if you have a pillow.
If battery life is a big concern, I would consider increasing sleep times even more. Honestly a check every 5 minutes seems reasonable. A device like that might perform worse when it comes to training you into keeping the right position though.
Tuned
I was wondering how that would compare to the Seeed nRF52840 Sense? that has everything I think you need already onboard but I was wondering how it would compare to your design as far as power consumption? because the xiao I think is smaller than your, it has all of the same functions but it might use more battery I'm not sure, but it's a whole lot easier because it's already built and ready for this task.
It is recommended to slightly overhang the USB port from the edge of the PCB.
Hey, nice project! Love your stuff, it always ends up looking really professional!
I was wondering what power meter you used to check the current draw? I'm looking for something similar myself.
Thanks!
Hi Mika. Thank you! That’s a Power Profiler Kit 2 from Nordic Semiconductors
How about using a really low pillow ?
Hello, when are you going to release it so we can buy it?
What microscope are you using? Nice quality!
Nice project! what about sharing us circuit diagram and its code...
Nice
Would you like to share us the code of this project? I think it would be helpful.
nice
Awesome project idea, but posture is not panning out as having any relevance to pain (recent research papers and stuff). If you stay in the same posture too long you get pain. Maybe it could tell you to change position instead? E.g. sit straight for a while, slouch forward for a while, rest on an elbow for a while etc. Trouble is, fixating on posture and worrying about it seems to result in more issues...
Hello,
The boxes at 1:02. Where did you get them? And do they close up well enough so the smds can't slip out, and does the lid stay closed up as well if it were to fall over?
I have been looking for a way to store especially smd caps in a secure (since they don't have markings) and space-saving way.
Thank you!
These boxes are from AliExpress, just search for “SMD containers”. They do not close perfectly, so if you flip them, 0402 or smaller components might escape. There are better ones, but these are good enough for me.
@@EliteWorm
Hello,
Thank you for your reply! You are right in that there are other alternatives that seem to be better, but your information, especially in regards to the keyword, helped me out quite a lot!
I've been trying to develop (not beyond the back of a napkin) a way to fix waking posture or at least alert to bad posture. Especially from hips to toes.
AFAIK AVR consume far less battery power compared to ESP, if you just need couple more I/O ATmega328 variant do exist… or ATmega32 even bigger ones.
Is their any need of motor driver for vibrator, because ultimately vibrators are also motor. Which driver you have used here??
You know that there are small devices that use motion sensors to track body position (e.g., prone, supine) while sleeping. You could use one to compare data.
Why dont you try expanding its capabilities? Like sending positional data over bluetooth to track your sleeping positions over the course of a night?
Where to buy the plastic container for your SMD?
AliExpress
When I sleepy on stomach my lower back hurts in morning. Dr said it's coz I have vitamin D deficiency. It's 40°c + so can't take sun. I have some allergies from vitamin D pills and tablets for some reason.
Hope I don't get allergic to allergies.
Nice project, but honestly I don't think you can sleep upside down when the device is in this possition. Lol.
I guarantee you can, you wouldn’t even notice… its smaller than it seems
MEMS accelerometers have drift - they lose position over time unless you have something to re-calibrate them. Gravity is typically used, but must be filtered out and deduced from the sensor, which can be tricky. For directional sense usually a directional MEMS compass is used but that's not needed here. I think an array of angularly arranged mercury switches would've been more reliable, and simpler. Cool project though!
Can I get a battery like that
Amazing project!, I’m just not comfortable enough to put a diy device with a lipo on my underwear🤣
Is there any secret power of 3D printing to print directly on heating PCB on Prusa-printer, and not using the flex-sheets? :D
That’s the only way to do it on old MK2 models 😄
👍👌
Have you ever had a sleep study? Sleeping on my stomach was caused by Very Severe sleep apnea, and my body would twist this way to keep my airways open.
I'm curious if you're really tired now that you are stopped from sleeping on your stomach.
In my opinion a better solution would be to use computer vision, that way the patient wouldn't have to wear anything and can also be used in hospitals.
I thought about that, but how do you deal with tracking the body position when covered with blankets?
V2: the thing doesn't wake you up but adjusts your pillow to a better position
Thanks, but I won't sleep with a Lion battery attached to my body. It could explode and cause serious burns.
Am I the only one who hold my breath when watching him placing smd component?
A tennis ball attached to the front and/or back will stop all these probs for little cost.
Doc Oct would like to talk to you.
I can't sleep on my back. Haven't been able to since I was 8 years old . I just prop up pillows.
Cool device though!
I'm interested. I don't have instagram. As a suggestion: put the clip on the front so the strap of the underwear goes over the entire device. The status lights don't need to be seen during operation, so that shouldn't be an issue. Also, sleeping for several minutes instead of seconds would likely be just fine. A few minutes on your stomach probably wouldn't cause too much of an issue after all yet save a lot of the battery. I'd retrofit mine with an inductive loop for my wireless charger, but that's nothing to do with the current design.
You could make it wireless charging capable and you would stop worrying about autonomy. Just put it in your wireless charger as soon as you wake up
Use apple haptic engine
I would be interested in one of these but don't use instagram.
Why is it your background music competes with what you are trying to tell us? Turn it down i shouldn't have to turn my sound down
Its easier to just get fat.. :)
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product perfect but design not