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The story of how I, a 15-year-old with no tech background, founded a tech startup to help my community battle the COVID-19 virus. What I learned from my experiences, and how I hope to share them with you! Hi there! My name is Adrian, and I am a 15-year-old from Los Angeles, California with a tech startup. In this article, I will first tell you my story, then I will elaborate on what I hope to accomplish with these articles. I hope that my title captured your attention, and it

The story of how I, a high school student with no tech background, started a tech company to help my community battle the COVID-19 virus. Imagine if there were a way to prevent up to 21% of all respiratory infections (including colds, the flu, and, most recently, Coronavirus) contracted annually. Imagine if we could prevent 1 million deaths each year and reduce diarrheal-associated deaths by up to 40%. These may all sound like farfetched prospects, but the common solution lin

The continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic - how proper handwashing can limit contractions of the virus. With the Coronavirus set to infect more than half of all Californians, we are taking large strides to prepare a device accessible to the masses through e-commerce and the implementation in hospitals, schools, and restaurants. In these times of social distancing, it is extremely important to maintain proper handwashing practices, with the Center for Disease Control emphasizi

Hello! Thanks for visiting our website! I appreciate your attention and hope you will continue to follow our journey through our website and social media (Instagram for now). If you would like to contact us, you can message us through Puriphico's Instagram page or (more preferably) you can contact us through our website. #Hands #Wash hands #Hand washing #The Beginning #The Origin #Hygiene #Innovation #startup #Puriphico #COVID #COVID19 #coronavirus #WashYourHands

In this photo, you can see my hands below the device (in a pre-mature stage), which is balanced on the sink faucet (not how actual setup will look). -- By sensing whether the user is washing their hands, the system is able to aid the handwasher in achieving a 20-second handwashing session. It does this by recognizing characteristics consistent among samples of handwashing, such as the parameters for sound variation in the water as well as hand movement in the user. The devic

Here you can see a close-up of one of my latest embedded systems, using the ATtiny85 microprocessor. -- As you can see in the photo, I have been using a Keyestudio PIR motion sensor and two 5mm LEDs. I have recently changed the microprocessor to an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense due to its greater number of digital pins (this one only has 6, and is not able to support an OLED display, as I have recently added). -- My program takes input from the PIR sensor and the microphone to de