IMG_6901.MOV My project is a basic fitness tracker that uses heart rate data to drive different LEDs. For a low heart rate, or a heart rate below the target zone, the RGB blinks blue at the user’s heart rate. For a heart rate in the zone, it blinks green at […]
My project is a wearable weightlifting tracker, which collects data during resistance training and displays qualities of your lifts, such as velocity and power. I am slightly disappointed with the function of my sleeve. It doesn’t work as consistently as I had hoped. However, I am pretty happy with how […]
My project is a rash guard or fitness jacket that lights up depending on changes in movement in order to act as a source of motivation and amusement for the user. I used neopixels along the arms and connected them in the back with wires hidden with a blue fabric hand […]
My project is completed and successful! As a reminder, I wanted to create a sweat band that doubled as a timer to time how long a stretch should be held during the cool down part of someone’s workout. This timer, with a vibrating motor, allows for people to stretch for […]
A lot of changes as of late. The soft fabric touch sensor with the resistor will not work with my trinket after extensive testing and debugging. I am resorting to plan B which is a regular button. It will work just as fine and the coding will be easier to […]
This past week, I completed the sewing of all velcro onto the band, which now makes secure closure and hiding of the board possible. I also sewed on the LEDs. This week, I just have to finish my last few stitches and attach the heart rate monitor either by soldering […]
On Tuesday while trying to stitch in my hardware to a sleeve, one of the wires broke off its soldering. After trying to re-solder the wire to the sensor, the multi-core wires began to unwind and start wrapping around each other. So I decided to take apart everything, and re-wire […]
This week I sewed the lilypad and accelerometer to the rash guard and connected the led strip as well. I started working on soldering the wires to the other side of the led strip but couldn’t manage to solder it properly. Later today I am going to pick up fabric […]
This past week, I began the construction of the physical piece. As I planned, I sewed the two wristbands together, but only after deconstruction the bulkier wristband. This cut down on the bulk of what will be the final product, leaving me with a flap to cover the board instead […]
This week I continued to work on the function that captures data during a lift, and also started to work on the sleeve that will hold the hardware. I cut out the fabric that will cover one side of the forearm, and sewed a pocket onto it, which will […]