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Introduction

Within a 24 hour timeframe, our team augmented a skateboard with hardware peripherals that guide the rider to a destination. We integrated the FourSquare API to retrieve our end goal, and used real-time GPS data to calculate the user's necessary direction. The direction is converted to a lightstrip pattern for the user's discretion.

Our board utilizes Twilio Programmable Wireless for data connectivity.

Usage

1. User turns on skateboard hardware using a slider switch.
2. User opens our app on their phone.
3. User enters a location query (e.g. Ramen, In-and-Out, Target, etc.)
   • A request to the FourSquare API fetches the nearest location that fits the input query.
4. Skateboard lights up, with a compass underglow.
5. As the user rides, the compass continually adjusts in real-time to direct the user to their chosen location.

Features

• FourSquare integration
• GPS
• IoT Wifi / Twilio SMS+Data
• Oh yeah, and it lights up

Stack

• C++
• Node.js
• Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS

© 2018 Ryan Jacobs, Chi Wong, David James, Srivishnu Ramamurthi, and Alex Chen