Some sports it’s pretty easy to see the skill and athleticism involved. Watch any basketball game and you’ll see amazing athletes doing amazing things. Some sports aren’t as accessible. Take fencing. Most of us watch fencing during the olympics. The matches are lightning fast, and often look more like two people playing a slap contest with sticks than displays of skill — far removed from the screen depictions of swordfighting in movies like The Princess Bride. Of course, fencing is as challenging as any other sport, and requires extraordinarly precise fine-tuning from its practitioners to improve. That’s where ChromaStrike comes in. Here’s more form dannychen301 via Instructables:
The proposed Fencing Coach Jacket is a smart wearable designed to enhance fencing practice accuracy through real-time visual feedback and performance data analytics…. The prototype jacket integrates LED lighting panels at key impact zones. When a fencer lands a strike, the affected area instantly changes color to indicate impact. After a short period, the fabric reverts to its original color, ready to record subsequent strikes.
To quantify the strike accuracy and dynamics, the prototype jacket shall incorporate embedded sensors such as capacitive touch elements for impact detection and an inertial timer to capture time data.