LED lighting +3D printing, Viget developed a running auxiliary training system

The use of LED lighting technology Products Design Company Viget and 3D printing technology, developed the auxiliary TrackPacer frequency monitoring system running training, help runners to observe their frequency and velocity in training.

Running auxiliary training system

In the running game, players are in a race against time, and even can be said to be the best and record their competition. Alexander, a student at California Institute of Technology, believes that the best way to run a training is to install a set of visual markers on the runway, so that athletes can see their real-time performance. This does not require athletes in training and match race, but the game shows and record label themselves, help players through accurate feedback to examine their running rhythm, and improvement and training.

Klein put his ideas and design to the Viget company, followed by Viget arranged for him. Eventually, the system became an advanced LED system controlled by iOS, and was delivered to several university track and field teams and some professional track and field athletes. This is called the Trackpacer auxiliary training system was born, thanks to the 3D printing technology.

3D printing ratchet wheel

Justin. The snake is a hardware engineer, the Colorado Office of Viget, he said: "we hope that by some means, the assistant training system of fast laying on the track, but does not need to implant in plastic runway. Without 3D printing technology, we can not achieve this idea".

In fact, Viget with 3D printing technology to produce a number of ratchet, LED lamp belt fixed on the runway. They used the LulzBot Mini desktop 3D printer to print out all of the ratchet parts within a week. These are very important, on the one hand, the whole system on the runway to play a fixed role, on the other hand in the fixed at the same time in the length of 400 meters to make minor adjustments.

Fixed LED lamp belt ratchet

Player or coach can use iPhone mobile phone set the lamp with the frequency, distance and interval. After the configuration is complete, the configuration information is sent to the LED lamp belt around the runway by low power Bluetooth, and the LED lamp lights up in accordance with the speed of setting up a person. A total of 12000 LED lamp holder is composed of the whole lamp belt, which is controlled by a set of passive controllers.

IPhone set the frequency, speed and distance parameters of the light

Passive controller

The ability to quickly make this prototype 3D printing technology has a big factor

The first test is in the field of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Potts, athletes and coaches are given a positive response, the Viget plan as soon as possible the system will make commercial products mature. Eventually may not use 3D printing technology, but in the early stages of Trackpacer product design, 3D printing technology to help a lot.

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