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Final: Making Wireless Toys
As of now my project is named “flow”. It will be a device that tracks height and rotation for bmx riders. Some day I hope this device will be developed further to track an extensive library of bmx tricks.
Look and Feel Prototype:
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This device will be mounted on the down tupe on any bmx frame. This is the ideal placement due to it being the point of least contact during riding and other bmx tricks.
The electronics for the device will be imbedded into this foam pad that will be wrapped in decorative fabric. Not only is the padding practical but, the padding holds a nostalgic feeling to most riders and will be a retro throw back reference to the younger days of freestyle bmx of the early 1980’s.
Role Prototype:
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In the role involving the average consumer, I imagine this product being used as a way to document tricks and rider progression and sharing it on line.2. I also can see a role being used in conjunction with a video camera app or camera app on smart phones to aid this documentation, sharing, and user experience.
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My last predicted role, this product could be used during televised competitions to create athletic statistics. A rider’s average speed, height, and rotation could be documented and displayed in a news ticker during the competition.Future Prototypes:
1. I imagine that this will built as a smart phone app,to work with the sonic range finder, as smart phones do possess most of the necessary hardware to achieve this. I am just concerned about physical placement of the phone on the bike or the body of the rider, and types on phones varying in too much of a degree for it to be widely accepted.
2. My second implementation involves actually building the electronics using arduino. I would like the arduino to transmit the athletic statistics to a smart via blue tooth.
I have already begun to test out a variety of sensors for this project. The height from the ground information will be gathered using an ultrasonic range finder, and rotation will use a combination of accelerometers, composes, and gyros. All of this will need to by gyroscopically mounted to the down tupe the bike frame.
Precedence:
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Sports Bio Engineering PhD student Tristan McNab plans on developing iphone software to track athletic information during track and field sports .also here is a link to an array of athletic uses for various sensors http://wockets.wikispaces.com/WirelessMonitors
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Saul
It’s very straightforward to find out any matter on net as compared to textbooks, as I found this piece of writing at this website.
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Thesis Draft
Designed with freestyle skaters in mind, Skate Signal is partly a safety device, and partly a stylistic add on, and partly a training device. Skate Signal will be mounted with an ardiuno board,an accelerometer, and an array of LED lights that will illuminate on as the board flips and tilts. Like turn signals on a car the led lights mounted underneath the board can also be used to signal the direction the skate board is steering. On the top side, the nose of the board will be fitted with an array of lights that will illuminate at individual orientations when the board is tiled upward, as during certain tricks such as manuals or nose manuals. This is will aid the rider in finding his or her balance point while skating.
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list 5 questions you would ask the perfect guest critic, What do you want feedback specifically?
I want feedback specifically on implementation and the perfect critic would be someone like Tony Hawk.
questions:
- How could the design be more seamlessly worked into freestyle skate culture?
- How could the electronics be placed within the design as to not inhibit the skater?
- How easy would this be to mass produce?
- What is more important the visual aesthetic or the practical functionality?
- How should I market this? Is it worth marketing?
- Are you hiring?
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Second Summary:
1) Re-Write your one sentence description.
“Skate Signal” is designed with freestyle skaters in mind as a training application and stylistic addition to their boards that responds to the boards movements.
2)list 2 “big findings” that came out from the evolution of your protoypes.
- learning to work with and program accelerometers.
- upon researching this, I have devised a system I will further develop to track skate board flip tricks electronically with minimalist hardware attached to the board.
3) list 3 differences with your work from that of prior art.
The prior art I have discovered as done two things. It has either mounted lights on the board and ignored what the free style skateboard is used for, or the creators focused on the tricks of skaters but have mapped them and placed the electronics in hopelessly poor places on the physical board while using an abundance of cumbersome electronics.
My work hides the electronics of the board keeping it useful to the freestyle skater while adding aesthetics and sporting applications. At this time, I have also kept my electronics to a minium, relying on one microcontroller, one accelerometer sensor, 9 leds, and one coin cell battery.
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android phone sensors and arduino via bluetooth
http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-your-android-phone-sensors-on-the-arduino-/
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android phone sensors and adruino via bluetooth
http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-your-android-phone-sensors-on-the-arduino-/
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Making wireless toys Final:Coolest precedence ever!!
Thanks to Nate!
This is the coolest thing ever.
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Adam
holy yury! thats so cool .
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Major Studio: Look and Feel prototypes- final
Role:
1. The role is pretty straight forward. This would be used in conjunction with freestyle boarding.
2. It could also be used as a safety feature for boarding at night.
Look and Feel:
Motion LED Skate Board-
1. There are many places to hide small electronics within the skate board trucks and under the grip tape of the board. I may have to create indentations in the board itself to protect them. I’ve also thought about install LED’s in the Skate board wheels them selves. The LED’s will be triggered to light up when the board flips or is tilted.
I think I’ll hide a simple on and off switch within the trucks or the risers as well.2. A long board, which is used for rolling along may not obtain the same effect with the use of the accelerometer and led’s. The user only leans from side to side with this model.
3. Snowboards. Probably will only be visible when sky diving.
4. Surfing. If the pieces could be repositioned and waterproofed, I believe the accelerometer and LED’s could be used for stylistic and learning purposes. And possible interesting effects at dusk or night.
5. The electronics would almost be hidden. Installation would need to occur during the building of the skate board. Snowboards and Surfboards would need a different installation process.
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naterudolph
Obviously this took forever to develop, but I thought it might be some good inspiration for your project:
http://cogoo.jp/turntablerider/
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Wireless toys: implementations
Trick Tracker for BMX:
Phone Compass app:
Using a compass and maybe GPS, I will be able to map out rotation.
I have the range finder working. This will give me distance from the ground
So far as I have been able to establish, my android phone doesn’t track height from the ground. The closest application involves using gps and the built in camera to triangulate the height of a distant object.
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—-Did any surprises arise from this round of prototyping?
I am astonished of the lack of precedence that I have uncovered involving this project. Rotation and height mapping are either extremely difficult to map on an individual level or not many people have had the need to do so.—-What was the hardest thing about making these prototypes?
Again, the research. I have explored numerous techniques to achieve this goal, including collaborating with a mathematician.
Over all, I need to research compass sensors and test one.I am still exploring smart phone applications involving this project.
—-What was the easiest thing about this round of prototypes for you?
Find the motivation to work on this is easy to come by. I’m interested in creating this project and using it. I see an immediate return in creating this and that pushes me to work at it. -
Caitlin Morris
iPhone accelerometer based project:
http://www.freefallhighscore.com/in Wired Magazine:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/03/pl_bannedgames/
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Final Concepts
1. Traffic interruption helmet
- for disrupting umbrella traffic or increasing personal space in the city
2. Motion and Color skateboard
- sensor in the ramp that light leds as it passes over
- accelerometers cause leds to light up when flips, possible pov apps
3. internet “brita” water filter
- learn what is in the water around the world
4. GA guide stones interactive game/film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
5. caffeine tracking device/website
6. modern message in a bottle
- track an actual message in a bottle
7. weather balloon photography and air pollutants tracker
8. Fake twitter feeds game
- attempt to make a mockery of local news
9. internet radio radio
- put internet radio feeds into a retro knob radio
10. acid rain meter
11. Assassin Game
- uses wireless devices with simon says with hide and seek
12. gps wallet/keys
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What are your 2 favorite concepts, and least 2 favorite concepts, why?
Firstly the fake twitter feeds game is one of my least favorites because, personally, I don’t visualize it well. It seems to be a hollow idea. Secondly, the motion interactive skateboard because while I’m not able to find an existing example online I feel as if the idea is simple and obvious.
My two favorite ideas are the wireless Assassin game and possibly the weather balloon pollutants tracker. These ideas both present explorative problems opportunities to learn, both artistically and technically and, personally, seem to be extremely enjoyable.
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Pulse Band
I consider Pulse Band to be my first iteration as I begin to explore electronics to be used in the athletic enviroment. Pulse band is a sweat band fitted with a pulse sensor which uses leds to communicate the users heart rate. The project is powered by a coin cell battery and fitted with an off and on switch.
This project was a huge exploration and learning experience for me. This was my first time using the arduino lilypad, lilypad leds, and conductive thread. I have also learned quite a bit about sewing.
Going forward with this I will search for better wearable materials that offer a more sleek and light weight look and feel. I will also be exploring options to shrink the electronics down further to fit inside a wrist band.
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Final: prototypes
As of now my project is named “trick tracker”. It will be a device that tracks height and rotation for bmx riders. Some day I hope this device will be developed further to track an extensive library of bmx tricks.
Look and Feel Prototype:
1.
This device will be mounted on the down tupe on any bmx frame. This is the ideal placement due to it being the point of least contact during riding and other bmx tricks.The electronics for the device will be imbedded into this foam pad that will be wrapped in decorative fabric. Not only is the padding practical but, the padding holds a nostalgic feeling to most riders and will be a retro throw back reference to the younger days of freestyle bmx of the early 1980’s.
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This second look and feel is strictly functional. This light weight plastic or rubber housing will contain all of the electrons and will aim to use the least amount of mounting space as possible. There is still room to play with color here but this design aims to remove itself practically and visual from the bike.This is an example photo of a previously used bike mount for a cell phone camera, my model would ideally be similar.
Role Prototype:
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In the role involving the average consumer, I imagine this product being used as a way to document tricks and rider progression and sharing it on line.2. I also can see a role being used in conjunction with a video camera app or camera app on smart phones to aid this documentation, sharing, and user experience.
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My last predicted role, this product could be used during televised competitions to create athletic statistics. A rider’s average speed, height, and rotation could be documented and displayed in a news ticker during the competition.Implementation Prototype:
1. I imagine that this could be built as a smart phone app, as smart phones do possess most of the necessary hardware to achieve this. I am just concerned about physical placement of the phone on the bike or the body of the rider, and types on phones varying in too much of a degree for it to be widely accepted.
2. My second implementation involves actually building the electronics using arduino. I would like the arduino to transmit the athletic statistics to a smart via blue tooth.
I have already begun to test out a variety of sensors for this project. The height from the ground information will be gathered using an ultrasonic range finder, and rotation will use a combination of accelerometers, composes, and gyros. All of this will need to by gyroscopically mounted to the down tupe the bike frame.3. Implementation three involves building a motion tracking suit. By using a camera in conjunction with a variety of motion tracking points on the bike and rider, one could eventually write computer vision software that tracked tricks. This is the most elaborate and complex theoretical implementation.
Precedence:
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Sports Bio Engineering PhD student Tristan McNab plans on developing iphone software to track athletic information during track and field sports .also here is a link to an array of athletic uses for various sensors http://wockets.wikispaces.com/WirelessMonitors
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Chaotic Moon Labs’ “Board of Awesomeness” is intended as a technology teaser to show how perceptive computing can turn around the way we look at user experiences. The project utilizes a Microsoft Kinect device, Samsung Windows 8 tablet, a motorized longboard, and some standard and custom hardware to create a longboard that watches the user to determine what to do rather than have the operator use a wired or wireless controller. The project uses video recognition, speech recognition, localization data, accelerometer data, and other factors to determine what the user wants to do and allows the board to follow the operators commands without additional aid. -
Joe Volpe
Mid Term update
So the wiring is up and working. The code needs some work as I’m having a bit of trouble getting the lights to start pulsing upon reaching various levels of heart rate. Also, as of now I have built the prototype around an Arduino NANO but as soon as my LilyPad arrives I will be using that and embedding it into the wristband along with slimmer LEDS
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Midterm Journal Entry 2: pulse sensor Runner’s band
The look at feel for my project is practical and simple. I want to embed the pulse sensor and an array of lights and possibly a speaker into a cotton wrist band. The lights that are aligned linearly with in the band will gradually light up appropriately as the users heart rate increase or decreases. The battery will also be embedded with an pocket that can be easily accessed when changing it. I also would like to add a light sensor as an on and off/reset switch.
-What surprised you?-
The wiring is fairly simple so I quickly wired up one LED at the start and attempted to slip my newly purchased arduino NANO into my wristband. The pins on the NANO make it extremely difficult to cleanly place inside the band and also make it uncomfortable to wear. Also, the led itself is rather large.
So I have decided to use a lily pad and possibly some smaller flatter LEDs if I can find them. I think I’ll also steal a small speaker from a pair of headphones.
I hope to have a usable and integrated prototype by Monday.
Any suggestion from any of you would be awesome.
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Joseph Volpe’s Midterm_Journal Entry 1
Project overview:
Originally I initially thought that I would create a game that consisted of an array of colored leds an in conjunction with a pulse sensor that would light up as the users heart rate increased. The challenge would be to attempt to light up all the lights through aerobic exercise.(whether this item be wrist bands, or gloves or some other clothing is to be decided, but it will be wearable) After researching the theory that individuals heart rates tend to sync up during physical and intimate contact, I have decided to attempt to create a wearable item that is also a game for two. That users may compete and race to reach the goal heart rate first, or be entertained at the idea that their heart rates have become in sync do to physical contact.
known and unknown challenge :
I want this to be completely video free,contained completely within the wearable object, and the concept of the game to be passed on with as little instruction as possible. This presents a number of problems I will soon address through user testing. My initial design consists of dual sweat bands that are tethered together but each have their own pulse sensor. I’ll need to create some form of wireless communication between the bands in order to not inhibit motion as the users attempt to raise their heart beats.
My known challenges will be concerned with the wireless communication between the two wearable items…
My unknown challenges, I imagine, will come more and more prominent as I struggle with the look a the feel of this wearable gamified device.
Easter Egg findings:
Even in my early stages of brainstorming, I’m becoming aware of how lovable a simply designed item can be to the user. Ultimately the look at the feel will determine the sell-ability of this device, more so than the technological force driving it.
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Pulse Sensor:iteration 2
My second iteration was an experiment of creating a different shape with the fabric provided and adding additional circuits and leds, and an embedded speaker to work with the pulse sensor.
I began to see the limitations of using an arduino uno board with the pulse sensor as I would have enjoyed using pwm pins with this project to fade the lights but the timers are being devoted to the pulse sensors.
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