Project -Spin Bike Studio Project

The majority of spin studios consist of mechanical bikes with no way for members to compare their performance against their peers. Our goal is to create a cost-effective method for upgrading these bikes without having to completely upgrade their studio with expensive bikes, which do not have network capabilities. Our senior design project involves collaboration with a mechanical engineering design team and a start-up company called Flywheel Concepts. We will design a system that acquires measurements from legacy spin bikes that do not contain an electrical system. Our goal is to use microcontrollers for each bike to collect data such as resistance, power, and rpm. We will wirelessly transmit this data onto a central system, which will be interfaced with a display where members of a spin cycle class can compare their performance with others. In order to test the system, we will design a simulation box that mimics the outputs that we will be receiving from the mechanical engineering team. This will include variable resistance, output power, and rpm. Each bike will have its own seven-segment display that shows the measurements obtained. The central display will be incorporate all of the data from each bike on a user-friendly display on a computer.

Final paper

Design review