Elastic “Band”-Claire Yang-Professor Rudi
Sketch:
What is it?
My project focuses on the topic of wellness and is relevant to fitness enthusiasts. It’s a audio-visual fitness gadget that can value the strength through 5 LEDs and sound a note after each pull. By controlling the strength and frequency of pulling the elastic band, the user can complete a melody using this solo band while staying motivated to work out.
I came up with the idea of using force sensing resistor in the book Getting Started with Arduino. And the idea of utilizing LED to display the strength is similar to the video below.
ShortneyX. “Lighting Multiple Leds with a Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR+Arduino).” YouTube, YouTube, 23 Feb. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkVWWRuUyFo.