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11 Cornhole/Bags Electronic Scoring System
Area Award: RFID
 Kabir Singh
Travis DeMint
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For our project we will be designing and building an electronic scoring system for the game of cornhole/bags. Our motivation for this project is to develop a marketable scoring system for a game that has a complex system of keeping score over multiple rounds. Cornhole is an extremely popular game for tailgaters across the country. Currently there are no electronic systems available to compute your score and display it in real time. We plan to use a load cell to determine the number of bags on the board during one round of play. A proximity sensor will be used to detect bags that have passed through the center hole. Both teams throw bags at same time so we will need to distinguish between the two sets of bags. To do this we plan to fill one set of the bags with a ferrous material, while retaining its original weight, and implement a set of inductive sensors mounted underneath the playing board to make the differentiation between the sets of bags. We will use a microcontroller to acquire the signals from all of the sensors and calculate the correct scores for each round. The scores will then be outputted and displayed for the players to see.

BarPro Weightlifting Aid Device

Patrick Fejkiel, Grzegorz Gruba, Kevin Mienta

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Patrick Fejkiel (pfejki2), Kevin Mienta (kmient2), Grzegorz Gruba (ggruba2)

Title: BarPro

Problem: Many beginner weightlifters struggle with keeping the barbell level during lifts. Even seasoned weightlifters find their barbells swaying to one side sometimes. During heavy lifts, many people also struggle with full movements after a few repetitions.

Solution Overview: BarPro is a device that straps on to a barbell and aids the lifter with keeping the barbell level, maintaining full repetitions and keeping track of reps/sets. It keeps track of the level of the barbell and notifies the lifter with a sound to correct the barbell positioning when not level. The lifter can use the device to calibrate their full movement of the repetition before adding weight so that when heavy weight is applied, the device will use data from the initial repetition to notify the lifter with a sound if they are not lifting or lowering the barbell all the way during their lift. There will be an LCD screen or LEDs showing the lifter the amount of repetitions/sets that they have completed.

Solution Components:

Subsystem #1 - Level Sensor: An accelerometer will be used to measure the level of the barbell. If an unlevel position is measured, a speaker will beep and notify the lifter.

Subsystem #2 - Full Repetition Sensor: An ultrasonic or infrared distance sensor will be used to measure the height of the barbell from the ground/body during repetitions. The sensor will first be calibrated by the lifter during a repetition with no weight, and then that calibration will be used to check if the lifter is having their barbell reach the calibrated maximum and minimum heights.

Subsystem #3 - LED/LCD Rep/Sets Indicator: LEDs or a LCD screen will be used to display the reps/sets from the data measured by the accelerometer.

Criterion for Success: Our device needs to be user friendly and easily attachable to the barbell. It needs to notify the lifter with sounds and LEDs/LCD display when their barbell is not level, when their movements are not fully complete, and the amount of reps/sets they have completed. The device needs to work smoothly, and testing/calibrating will need to be performed to determine the minimum/maximum values for level and movement positioning.