Automatic Pill Dispenser Demo, Embedded System Project, Cornell University

Authors: Qikun(Max) Wang and Min Zheng.
Class Project of Embedded Operating System, ECE 5725 Cornell University, 2016 Fall
The APD is designed and built based on Raspberry Pi. It is able to dispense different pills autonomously according to user-defined dose and time instructions. Two different pills can be stored and dispensed for now for demonstration purposes; however, the number of pill types can be expanded as desired. The product is consisted of two main parts. The user will firstly enter the desired time and dose for each pill following the guidelines on the touchscreen. The user will be able to view and confirm their pill taking schedule. Then, the pills will be dispensed autonomously at the set-up time.
The project was inspired from living with my grandparents. They take a lot of medicine. Some of medicine need to be taken two times a day, some of medicine need to be taken three times a day. They forget about taking medicine sometime and sorting pills can be very troublesome. Therefore, the automatic pill dispenser will take care of that issue.Whenever there are medicine came out of the dispenser, they just grab the medicine and eat them. Our design use piTFT as input and a dispense mechanism to dispense the pills.