Fix Your "Developer Slouch": Building a Real-time AI Posture Monitor with MediaPipe and Electron

Short summary

Tutorial for building a real-time posture monitor using MediaPipe Pose for body tracking, Electron for a cross-platform desktop app, and JavaScript for angle calculations. Provides architecture diagrams and code samples for detecting forward head posture via ear-shoulder angles, triggering desktop notifications. Includes next steps for adding calibration, work timers, and data persistence.

• •MediaPipe Pose detects ear and shoulder landmarks to calculate neck angle in real-time
• •Electron wraps the logic into a native desktop app with system notifications
• •Working code examples show camera setup, angle math, and detection thresholds

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