Team members:
- Kristen Aragon
- Greg Smith
- Steve Sorenson
- John Streuber
- Anand Suchak
This project is primarily designed for use by a skier or snowboarder; it has two main purposes, control and monitoring. It will provide a user with a touch-less method of controlling an mp3 player and it will also provide monitoring and feedback to the user from the day on the mountain. We will create a device that can be worn on the user's chest that will recognize a gesture from a user's hand and then send control messages to the mp3 player. In our project we will focus on three basic controls that will manage the media player of the phone: Play, Volume up/down, Next/Previous Track. Our project will also include a GPS antenna, heart rate monitor, accelerometers and pressure sensors that will be monitoring throughout the day. Our project will have data collected and stored throughout the day that will be processed by our microcontroller and will be stored on an SD memory card. It will record heart rate, acceleration, and pressure on the skis at certain times throughout the day; this information along with the GPS tracking will be stored on the SD card and can be assessed by the user on a PC at the end of the day. Once we have a proof of concept with our device it is our goal to extend our device to be used as a universal controller.