The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

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Summary

Our project is going to Make the people in Social Distancing more confident of themself by making their enviroment more confortable for them also by making them feeling more near from home in case of a Large duration spaceflights.

How We Addressed This Challenge

At first glance Our project is going to make something simple but at the same time necesary for people to not get bored easily. A consecuence of that is Mental Breakdown for long exposure at that enviroment.


The first step of the solution comes by making the enviroment itself diferent. Our idea is to make holographic walls that makes the astronaut feel diferent at any moment, for example. If in Earth we are at winter, the environment will turn to a Blue-ish colour, also if here at home we are in summer, the walls will turn Yellow-ish. by doing this, the astronaut will feel a little bit more at home. Also by Dimming the lights at different wave lengths depending on the time , the astronaut will get better rest.


We also think that by using the holographic walls to set different patterns on the walls at different times on the month and year, they will no longer get sick of being everyday and every moment of the day in the same place for so long.


Also little things like the food being a little bit more salty or more cooked can be beneficial for the astronaut not getting bored of the food.


Other thing to consider for Long duration spaceflight (in the case of a mission to mars for example) is being  too far from home. 

Our solution to that problem of feeling lonely is The internet.

You may thing, that being at Mars, the light takes 20 minutes to travel to Planet Earth and that the Internet will be so slow that it will be unusable. And that is right so our Solution to that is Making a Huge cache of the most Used website data.

How We Developed This Project

We are still trying to solve some tecnical problems with the project, We still dont have any hardware to show.

 For now We where using A Raspberry pi With LoRa conectivity , and as a base station, a Arduino or a ESP3266 based board also with LoRa. But we are still working in the code and the wardware conections for these to work. 

For the "Holographic" Walls, whe are thinking about using directly a tiny Proyectors or Laser proyectors. Laser proyectors has the advantage that it can be mounted directly in the wall and they are more power efficient.

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#mentalhealth #isolationsolution #Internetcache