Today I made a Pedometer that uses a phone’s accelerometer to count strides when you run.
My constraint was to make something that you interact with by exercising.
The resulting design concept was an app that played “choose your own adventure” audiobooks while you ran. The choices in the story would be determined by your activity during your run. For example, you could get a more descriptive narrator if you ran at a slower pace, or the action of the story could be decided by a sudden sprint. You could also detect when the user takes a break and rests. This could even be used to plan workouts by writing a balanced story.
My prototype only implements the basic functionality of counted steps. However, it only took one script to get it working, so it’s rather lightweight. It uses unity.
Prototype End Result <— click this
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