TinyVitals — Winner of Best Hardware Hack, Hack the 6ix 2026
2026Raspberry Pi 5 · QNX · rPPG · IMU · Flask · Gemini · Hack the 6ix
AI-assisted baby monitor on Raspberry Pi 5 / QNX: contactless heart rate and breathing via rPPG, IMU sleep-position and incline alerts, plus a live dashboard with AI wellness summaries.
Overview
TinyVitals is an AI-assisted nursery monitoring system that won Best Hardware Hack at Hack the 6ix 2026. A Raspberry Pi 5 running QNX streams a live camera feed, estimates contactless heart rate and breathing with remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), and reads an IMU for sleep position and mattress incline. A Flask + Socket.IO dashboard shows live vitals and Gemini-written wellness summaries so caregivers get clear updates instead of raw sensor noise.
Key features
- Raspberry Pi 5 on QNX with camera + ABX000101 IMU for position and incline monitoring.
- Presage SmartSpectra rPPG pipeline for contactless heart-rate and breathing estimation.
- UDP sensor bridge into a Flask / Socket.IO backend with a mobile-first live dashboard.
- Gemini natural-language wellness summaries and alerts for meaningful sleep-position or vital-sign changes.