Neat project from Seiya Kobayashi
Grunting Racket is a tennis racket that sounds pro tennis player’s grunting when you swing it. You can select one of the four primary active grunters, Serena, Sharapova, Djokovic, and Nadal…
Tech Notes
- Components are accelerometer, LiPo battery, speaker, Arduino Pro Mini, Adafruit Audio FX Sound board, power button, and player selection button.
- Designed the circuit to house all components in a thin perf board to fit in the racket’s grip.
- Basically when a value from accelerometer excesses a particular threshold, the sound board will play a tone.
- You can switch to other players whose grunting you want to hear by pressing a button on the grip.
- Here’s the link to this Git Hub Repo
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