Muscle Jet
Abrahan Bechara
Project Description: Long sleeve T-shirt that shows through color changing light the force generated in a group of muscles.
Fun experimental project: Showing EMG data through a color changing scale is something that has not been done before, and has a few interesting challenges. One of them being the incorporation of fiber optics in to the fabrics.
The circuit will be very simple:
The overall structure will be:
Materials:
-Fiber optic
-Wool
-RGB led
-EMG electrodes
-Amplifier
-Arduino
-Sports T-shirt
-Maybe (Screen print)
Timeline:
| What | When |
| Material purchase | March 2 |
| Code + Concept test | March 7 |
| The technology for the project is shown to work | March 16 |
| First prototype (Functionality) | March 28 |
| The technology has been shown to work in a wearable configuration | April 6 |
| Second prototype (Efficiency) | April 13 |
| Feedback and refinement | |
| The technology and final wearable are fully integrated | April 20 |
Fallback: The signal acquisition will be the biggest challenge, if I cannot solve it them I would have to do a completely different project trying to incorporate the fiber optic and light display.
My plan B idea is a cycling aid belt that signals direction and stopping; the image below shows the configuration.
