Green Elevate

Inspiration

We started this project by asking ourselves “What would be one of the best ways to generate electricity and be healthy at the same time?”. Thus, we came out with the idea to build a smart static bike that takes the energy from rotating its wheel and reusing it! Moreover, we wanted to incentivise people into having this positive impact over themselves and the word, so we figured we would give them NFTs (which we thought would be the coolest incentive at that point

What it does

This project aims to help active people become greener and motivate more people to work out. It will be a perfect integration for a fitness studio, a gym or even a home bike. This will be achieved by appending a generator to a fitness bike, which will generate electricity that will be stored in a battery for a later use. In the mean time one could also charge their phone. By transmitting the data through a raspberry pi to an api, our app will be able to track one's progress and therefore reward the milestones.

How we built it

We used Flutter, Javascript, Python and firebase for the software. For the hardware we used different components

Challenges we ran into

We run into challenges with the hardware part. The amount of spin needed to start the generator was really high hence we needed to modify the generator. As well putting together all the components and making the circuit stable was hard.

For the software part we have faced issues with integrating blockchain technology. The whole decentralised eco-system was hard to understand and integrate.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Throughout this project, we started with a big goal. To our surprise, we managed to accomplish most of our goals. We have a working static energy generating bike that can charge your phone, a working mobile app that perfectly describes our idea, and a working blockchain javascript and solidity code that makes transactions on the blockchain!!!