Follow Me

Full view of the back
Back View 2
Close-up of the back
Close-up 2 of the back
Front LCD
Night, view

Inspiration

Our team is aware about the risks and safety issue faced by joggers. Either day or night, joggers should be assisted by a useful tool that could ensure their safety and improve their exercise experience. Thus, our team worked on a tool called Follow.

What it does

Provides illumination to make joggers more visible during night time. It possess a turning signal for the group leader providing a more convenient way to lead the jogging groups members without extensive hand signals or shouting. It also has a stopwatch to keep track of the running session.

How we built it

We mixed Arduino Uno, Arduino Shield, LED components, & an LCD component with a powerful C implementation to make the magic works!

Challenges we ran into

We began the project using the Intel Edison, a tiny computer which runs Linux. Unfortunately, the Intel Edison has a bad driver problem which doesn't allow us to run the code uploaded to it unless the system is connected to a computer. As we were using a base shield for our components, we figured out that the same shield is compatible with a basic Arduino Uno, we could easily swap the Edison for a Uno, and everything was functioning as expected.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First of all, it's not easy to deal with hardware. It's quite of a big accomplishment for us to make a working stopwatch without using an existing open source code. We even added a feature where we can save the time of the stopwatch.