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IndeTorch: Enhancing Biker Safety with Data & the Environment

Hello World! We were challenged to identify a problem facing cities that might be addressed by using lost-cost sensors and re-imagining the way we interact with our environment. After many iterations, our team (Sutong Jiang, Yishi Liu, and Deon Provost) developed a prototype to increase safety for bikers by logging unsafe areas and rethinking how […]

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Push Button to Send SMS with GPS Location [i.e., Panic Button]

Adafruit has an awesome tutorial on properly wiring and testing your Fona808; you can find it (here). If you want a description of the chip components and required accessories, you can find that (here). This tutorial is based on wiring to an arduino, so make sure you look at the correct tutorial (i.e., not the […]