Inspiration
An add that was seen for an online tennis evaluator where it record the user's movements and would provide feedback on what to improve. But the program wouldn't work for improvements for para standing players who can't play in the usual way that pros or full body tennis players do, so we decided to create our own that would work for para standing players.
What it does
The app is made for the user to input their disability and what parts of their body they want the camera to focus on. Then the camera will record the movements of the user as they go through the movements of a swing and the program will provide improvement suggestions.
How we built it
For the hardware portion of our program we collected all the Arduino pieces we needed to start working on the coding. We used a 3- axis accelerator and a rotary angle sensor. Then we used a Cloudflare Tunnel to sync the hardware to the program. For the online part of the program we coded so that there were multiple selections options for amputation areas and then there was a list of different body parts that the user wanted the algorithm to focus on.
Challenges we ran into
A challenge we ran into was syncing the Arduino into the program through a Cloudflare tunnel. Another challenge was getting the camera focus on specific body parts without causing other ones to disappear when the user turns.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
One thing we're proud of is that we split the work so that no one was not working while the others were.
What we learned
One thing we learned is how to work on Arduino hardware and how the coding would need to be phrased so that the results from the Arduino
What's next for Para standing Tennis Evaluator
With more time our project would be able to monitor the movements of a person's joints as they go through the movements in playing tennis and the program would be able to pick up each movement fast enough to provide a proper evaluation and suggestions for improvements.
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