Stop Slouching! Build an AI-Powered Posture Monitor with MediaPipe and Electron

Short summary

Tutorial on building a real-time posture monitor with MediaPipe Pose and Electron for detecting slouching. Uses computer vision to extract 33 body landmarks and measures ear-shoulder angles to trigger system notifications when poor posture is detected. Includes complete code examples and next steps for production improvements like temporal smoothing, posture scoring, and local persistence.

• •Build a desktop app that monitors posture via webcam using MediaPipe's 33-landmark pose model
• •Detect slouching by calculating angles between ear and shoulder keypoints
• •Get real-time system notifications; add timers and posture dashboards for production use

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