Counting Pullups

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Post by afx2in » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 1:03 PM UTC

Counting Pullups
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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC

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Post by krosaen » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:19 PM UTC

So very cool. I think there's a big future in automated personal metric tracking like this. Keeping a log of everything you eat is an incredibly powerful tool, but too onerous for most to keep up with - imagine if your glasses automatically recognized everything you ate and logged the calories / estimated nutrition?

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Post by omgsean » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:20 PM UTC

This is great. I would absolutely buy one of these.

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Post by zsiec » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

Great article! The process of using hardware to count calisthenics is certainly not trivial. Thank you for sharing your data and process.

Recently my consulting firm was tasked with detecting the calisthenics exercises (push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups) involved in the Navy SEAL physical screening test. After much research, we were able to use the accelerometer and gyroscope on the iPhone in tandem to achieve this. I was surprised at the level of success we were able to attain. You inspire me to write up a bit about how we were able to make this work.

If you are interested in this app, feel free to check it out here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/sealready/id520161454

Re: Counting Pullups

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Post by commiebob » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

krosaen wrote: post #3

So very cool. I think there's a big future in automated personal metric tracking like this. Keeping a log of everything you eat is an incredibly powerful tool, but too onerous for most to keep up with - imagine if your glasses automatically recognized everything you ate and logged the calories / estimated nutrition?

Sounds like a great idea for an app for Google's Project Glass.

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Post by ahnunahki » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

Overkill.

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 2:52 PM UTC

Raspberry Pi + Phidgets = next step from Arduino + shields.

Provided the Phidgets work well with Linux, which is not clear to me ATM.

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Post by saturdaysaint » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 3:27 PM UTC

omgsean wrote: post #4

This is great. I would absolutely buy one of these.

My thought, too. A simple counter display would be icing on the cake.

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Post by loumf » Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 3:32 PM UTC

krosaen wrote: post #3

So very cool. I think there's a big future in automated personal metric tracking like this. Keeping a log of everything you eat is an incredibly powerful tool, but too onerous for most to keep up with - imagine if your glasses automatically recognized everything you ate and logged the calories / estimated nutrition?

One way a food journal helps is by stopping you from eating bad things (because you consider the food before you eat it). I wouldn't want to remove all of the friction here (for weight-loss anyway). Help in getting it right and avoiding bad choices would be great, though.