Spring Capstone team presents wearable sensors for athletes

Oliver, Kurtis and Logan presented their optical sensor in the Speed School of Engineering Design and Innovation Showcase at the end of the Spring 2019 semester. They worked with super small circuit boards for our tiny new side-looking optical sensors, creating smooth and streamlined housings for our stretchable optical fibers so they can be quickly connected to electronics for sensing, and disconnected for washing. The 3 student team also sent the wireless data to a mobile phone instead of a database as previous teams had done, and they focused on materials, repeatability, and accuracy of the stretching measurements where previous teams had focused more on wireless communication and database software. Not pictured, but a secret ingredient for success: Dylan (independent study Masters student making those circuit boards & getting them to collect data from multiple optical sensors) and Chris (work-study student who developed a motorized platform for cycling individual fibers through repeated stretching measurements).

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