Development of a Cooling Wristband with Embedded Temperature Monitor

Previous studies have shown that the human body is
responsive to rapid temperature changes, particularly
in the forearm region, when determining comfortable
temperatures. The goal of this study is to design
a wristband that can passively cool the user through
a finned design and to test its effectiveness. To this
end, an aluminum finned wristband has been designed
and the Adafruit Flora wearable microcontroller
was used to monitor the temperature and output
the data via Bluetooth. An Android application was
then created to read the data output and save it as a
text file that could be output elsewhere. This project
will be tested by recording the temperature data as
test subjects engage in physical exercise to see if the
wristband can continuously cool the user.