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Electronic Hogu Measures Just How Hard Your Foe Can Beat You Up
Posted by Addy Dugdale at 9:15 PM on May 12, 2008
The final project of a team from Cornell University, this electronic hogu, modelled above by a lantern-jawed mannequin called Bob, uses piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller to measure the kicks and punches between contestants in a Tae Kwan Do bout. Piezoelectric sensors and a microcontroller are implanted in the transmitter side, while the receiver side has wireless receiver circuitry, another microcontroller, and a monitor to display the score. As that great black belt of martial arts would say, "Haiiiii-YAAAAAAA!" Yes, I'm talking Miss Piggy. [Cornell via GEARFUSE and HacknMod]
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strider_mt2k
Posted 9:44 PM 12/5/08
I'm kinda surprised that this isn't a dedicated product by now.
Definitely a great training tool.
strider_mt2k
scarbrtj
Posted 10:05 PM 12/5/08
"... Measures Just How Hard Your Foe Can Beat You Up"
Measures Just How Hard Up Your Foe Can Beat You
Measures Just the Foe-delivered Beat Up Hardness
Measures the Beat Up from a Foe and Just How Hard That Is
Measures Just How Hardly Beat Up a Foe Can Make You
There's really no way to phrase this satisfactorily is there? You win, preposition!
I give up!
scarbrtj
blackwand
Posted 9:50 PM 12/5/08
I like the old school monitor that they used as the scoreboard. Two-tone monitors FTW!
blackwand
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:40 PM 12/5/08
@Curves:
Perhaps they'll end up squaring off against each other instead to see who is the best, perhaps redirecting that energy in a more constructive way?
Easy enough to imagine as well.
strider_mt2k
Curves
Posted 10:35 PM 12/5/08
Why do I fear that this will be used by wife beaters to measure for bragging rights at anger management class mixer.... "I smacked the my old lady so hard she registered a 9; try and do better than that Leroy!"
Curves
kazuya
Posted 10:27 PM 12/5/08
Sorry someone has already beaten Cornell to it. It isn't used to measure force, but I'm sure it's capable of doing so. It can distinguish from weak and hard blows to award points so I guess it does the same thing.
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Ironically, Adidas has also been demoing their own version.
kazuya
sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
Posted 11:31 PM 12/5/08
didnt they have Dolph punching something like that in Rocky? And then there were also the bar games where you punched the padded target to save the planet from aliens/asteroids/etc? I know they had those at least 15 years ago, so I guess the innovation is the portability?
sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
vertigo
Posted 5:56 AM 13/5/08
I'd be pissed if this was used to keep score. A lot of times even though you side step and put your hand down to cover the chest cover to prevent the other guy from scoring a point he's still going to connect and it will register as a hit. This is where I trust the 3 judges to screw me over not a sensor.
vertigo
Accelerata
Posted 8:34 AM 13/5/08
@vertigo: it usually doesn't register a score in that case, but to be fair, you're also just abusing the rules by not actually blocking. if your "block" doesn't actually reduce the amount of force transmitted to your body, you wasn't actually a block.
my only problem i have with the ones i've seen is that they based the required force to score on the size of the hogu. obviously you need to adjust the required forcing force based on the size of the competitors, but it seems like it should be fairly easy to just input the weights of the competitors into the scoring software to calibrate it instead.
Accelerata