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Wireless Fencing Scoring System

March8

For Engineering Design 6, our group plans to pursue the project to make Wireless Fencing Scoring System.

Problem:

The scoring system available currently is too expensive and very heavy to move around. Not everyone can afford to buy the fencing scoring machines.

Solution:

Eliminate the wires by using wireless systems (Bluetooth, Zigbee, etc) that is cheap and can fully function as the wires used currently. Softwares are made so that people can just buy it and load the program into laptop - this will make fencing scoring machines very portable and almost every fencer can own one.
Current Fencing Scoring System:

fencingsports-current-wired.jpg

Green: The scoring machine
Pink: Wires connecting the machine to the reels
Red: Wires connecting the reels to the fencers
Blue: Reels

Wireless Fencing Scoring System:

fencingsports-wireless.jpg

Pink: Laptop with the loaded scoring software
Blue: Bluetooth devices that sends information to the laptop

The steps taken and the research made by the team can be found here.

6 Comments to

“Wireless Fencing Scoring System”

  1. On April 6th, 2008 at 4:34 am mrq Says:

    interesting, good luck nisa

  2. On May 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm Ready to test it Says:

    My son is an officer in a college fencing club. He would be very much interested in testing anything you develop.

    Max

  3. On May 24th, 2008 at 1:00 am admin Says:

    Thank you for your interest. I will definitely contact you when we reach the testing stage, etc. Thanks again =)

  4. On August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm jrpstonecarver Says:

    This turns out to be a really complicated problem if you handle it all. I hope to read more from you in the future and see how it goes.

  5. On November 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 am Jesse Says:

    If you make it I’ll buy it!

  6. On January 24th, 2009 at 3:39 pm fdf Says:

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