Thalia Pillay
Team Lead at Stitch Money
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Thalia Pillay is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Stitch where she gets to work with amazing people to build financial infrastructure for Africa. She writes most of her code in Typescript but has been known to dabble in C# and Golang. She has worked as a software engineer in corporate environments and startups and is a strong advocate for building diverse teams. She enjoys playing her flute and ukelele, and building assistive robots which improve the lives of others.
How to build a pair of SASL gloves
I once built a pair of South African Sign Language gloves which convert sign language into spoken English. I used a total of 22 sensors and developed a pair of gloves which can translate dynamic and static gestures with an accuracy of 98.7%. There were many things I learnt whilst doing this including: assistive technologies need to be informed by the people they're meant to assist and that you should never get your mom to sew the gloves as it will create tension in your family.
In this session, we will go through how to build the gloves and what I learnt whilst doing it.
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