User:1sfoerster/enes100/fall2013/p1BioFeed

Problem Statement (Finish description)
During exercise, people want to know their heart rate, oxygen saturation,calorie burn and distance traveled if biking. It is in this light that we have taken on creating a hat that will convey a persons heart rate, calorie burn, oxygen saturation and total distance traveled through a series of colored LED's that will change accordingly. Project have been divided amoung team members as follows: - One person will work on little Gazelle freestle work out machine to hack heart rate, distance traveled, and calorie burn which will be connected to the arduino -One person work on arduino coding -One person work on lilypad arduino for sensors and movements -One person work on EL wires

Conceive
Market/Customer Needs

We intend to finish connecting the LCD lights to the helmet of a bike and let some one ride it during one of the engineering seminars to attract the attention of the audience

Initial target goals

Connect heart rate, oxygen saturation reading, and distance traveled to an arduino connect the LCD lights to the arduino let the lights change color according to the input from heart rate and oxygen saturation readings

System performance metrics

let some one ride a bike with all the connections

Project cost and schedule

Make a biofeedback system from materials in the lab Use a helmet provided by the instructor

Alternatives

use the computer control system of a used little Gazelle freestyle machine to measure heart rate

Design
LEDs connected to the arduino will light up due to stimuli. WE where not able to get to this point because we are still working on the computer board of the freestyle machine that will act as our source of heart rate -We looked at past models of the LilyPad and also found some online designs that we used to follow and make our own. -We looked at online design and coding for arduinos
 * Reverse Engineering: We use the circuit board of little gazelle freestyle machine, open it up to see how the heart rate sensor is connected to the screen. We also  tried to fine out how to hack the heart rate reading to the arduino but cut short of time
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 * Training video and tutorials found
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 * The Design Process

Next Steps
How to connect all the different parts together if successful, then all the inputs will be connected to the arduino. the arduino will then be program to change colors/patterns through the use of LCD wires and movement sensors from the LilyPad. This will then be extended to include EEG,and skin temperature as a multi sensor system for those who can not normally control their environment