Prosthetic Sensor Sock
Project Lead
Status: Building
- Silver, MindFuel Tech Futures Challenge 2026
- 8-person team
- 16-sensor FSR array
- $3,000 in funding and in-kind donations for prototyping support
- Working relationship with Cascade Prosthetics
What I did
- Oversight, competition presentations and team management (self-described as closer to “business founder / CFO”).
- ESP32 soldering, breadboarding and resistance math.
- Sole point of contact with clinicians.
- Kept the team on deadlines with the co-lead.
- Wrote the literature-review deck (3 prior papers on FSR and textile pressure sensors).
- Submitted a Project Lead application and pitched a national expansion (UBC, U of Toronto, U of Waterloo).
- Wrote the Aug–May team timeline.
- Set up a daily applicant-tracking email export.
- Managed a working relationship with Cascade Prosthetics.
What the team did
- PCB design, which was not mine.
- Hardware iteration and the sensor progression 3 → 5 → 16 (Abdul Qureshi).
- Software, 3D heat map and interface (Abdul Qureshi).
- Impact-of-poor-fit and clinical-gap material (Alice).
- Mechanical and stand design, and the software pipeline (sub-teams).
Milestones
7 of 9 done
- Literature review
- ESP32 breadboarded and soldered
- 16-sensor array
- 3D heat map
- Cascade Prosthetics relationship
- Presented at MindFuel
- Fitting with a real wearer
- Funding beyond the confirmed $3,000
- An investor for expansion
Problem and context
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Process
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Photos
project90-sock-prototype-01.jpgThe prosthetic sensor sock as it stands now, whole object, plain background(wanted)project90-esp32-solder-01.jpgThe ESP32 board Neeor soldered, close up(wanted)project90-team-session-01.jpgThe team working, faces optional(wanted)What I'd do next
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