{"id":191,"date":"2016-02-17T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-02-17T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:41:46","slug":"weightlifting-belt-squat-depth-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/2016\/02\/17\/weightlifting-belt-squat-depth-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifting Belt, Squat Depth Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a sleeve for a weightlifting belt, that contains an infrared proximity sensor on the outside, and a motor on the inside. The motor is triggered to vibrate when the proximity sensor senses the safety bars, which would be set at a an appropriate height to match the right squat depth for the lifter. For the demonstration, the green LED on the front is triggered at the same time as the motor.<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone else, if I had more time I would work to make the belt more aesthetically pleasing, however I do like the way the wires look. I also would want to make it more reliable, and work out a way for the sensor to look for the ground, instead of the safety bars. Finally, I would think about incorporating a different sensor, such as an accelerator or flex sensor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVU7OK1Vnk4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a sleeve for a weightlifting belt, that contains an infrared proximity sensor on the outside, and a motor on the inside. The motor is triggered to vibrate when the proximity sensor senses the safety bars, which would be set at a an appropriate height to match the right squat depth for the lifter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}