Channel your inner Bruce Lee with this DIY reflex trainer
Channel your inner Bruce Lee with this DIY reflex trainer
Arduino Team — July 21, 2023
Video games are popular because they provide a clear and reliable loop of effort and reward. If you run over the bad guy, you gain experience; get enough experience and you level up. But real life is not like that and there is little direct correlation between effort and reward, which is unsatisfying. Gamification techniques respond to this by providing real-life game-like rewards. If you want to gamify physical speed and dexterity, then the DIY Cobra Reflex Trainer may be the ticket.
Cobra works much like consumer training devices on the market. It has several large buttons that you need to press as soon as possible after they turn on. And it provides gamification by quantifying your performance. Go a little faster and you'll immediately be rewarded with objective feedback on your improved speed. This motivates you to keep practicing, and over time your agility should increase. Keep it up and maybe you'll become the next Bruce Lee.
This is a compact unit, so the case is 3D printable and can be mounted on a wall or tree. Inside the case there is a massive PCB, with a cobra head artwork. This PCB contains an Arduino UNO Rev3 board, a 16×2 character LCD display and a small piezo buzzer. Adafruit NeoPixels illuminate the buttons, indicating which one you should hit at all times. These buttons are actually capacitive touchpads, so you don't need to press them hard; even a slight pressure will register.
Arduino Team — July 21, 2023
Video games are popular because they provide a clear and reliable loop of effort and reward. If you run over the bad guy, you gain experience; get enough experience and you level up. But real life is not like that and there is little direct correlation between effort and reward, which is unsatisfying. Gamification techniques respond to this by providing real-life game-like rewards. If you want to gamify physical speed and dexterity, then the DIY Cobra Reflex Trainer may be the ticket.
Cobra works much like consumer training devices on the market. It has several large buttons that you need to press as soon as possible after they turn on. And it provides gamification by quantifying your performance. Go a little faster and you'll immediately be rewarded with objective feedback on your improved speed. This motivates you to keep practicing, and over time your agility should increase. Keep it up and maybe you'll become the next Bruce Lee.
This is a compact unit, so the case is 3D printable and can be mounted on a wall or tree. Inside the case there is a massive PCB, with a cobra head artwork. This PCB contains an Arduino UNO Rev3 board, a 16×2 character LCD display and a small piezo buzzer. Adafruit NeoPixels illuminate the buttons, indicating which one you should hit at all times. These buttons are actually capacitive touchpads, so you don't need to press them hard; even a slight pressure will register.
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