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3. This enables a person to respond to an e-mail and reill his/her prescripion when
necessary. This prevents a reill reminder geing buried among e-mails and enables
the person to keep a tab on prescripion delays.
Setting up a reminder for doctor's appointments
This is also similar to the event noiier that we discussed in
Project 6
,
Raspberry Pi as a
Personal Assistant
. Let's assume that all doctor's appointments are saved in the calendar
as
Doctor's appointment
. It is possible to prominently display all upcoming doctor's
appointments as follows:
for i, an_event in enumerate(feed.entry):
if an_event.title.text == "Doctor's appointment":
print '\t%s. %s' % (i, an_event.title.text,)
In the preceding example, we are just prining it to a console. You can perhaps make use of
a display, for example, an OLED display that is controlled via a serial port, and display it at a
prominent locaion.
Objective complete - mini debriefing
In this task, we completed the setup of an e-mail noiier to reill prescripions and a
reminder for an upcoming doctor's appointment.
A simple tool that reminds a person
to take his/her pills
In this task, we will build a simple tool that reminds a person to take his/her pills on ime.
The circuitry required for this example is similar to the examples discussed in the previous
tasks. We are discussing this example because it is difficult for someone to develop a habit of
taking their medicaion on ime. It is criical that people ideniied with chronic condiions do
not miss their prescripion schedule.
Prepare for lift off
We extensively discussed interfacing the buzzer to a Raspberry Pi in the previous task. It'll be
nice to have an enclosure for the pillbox reminder. An example of a pill reminder is
available
We will only discuss how to trigger the buzzer at a selected ime of the day.
