Motion Capture – SCOPES-DF
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Lesson Details

Subjects
Engineering, Science, Unplugged
Age Ranges
14-18
Fab Tools
electronics, Breadboarding, Computer, computer, Programming, TinkerCAD, Block coding, Micro-Bit
Standards
Fab-Programming.2, Fab-Electronics.1
Author
Studio 5
Additional Contributors
Zaid Abusini, Ilaria La Manna

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Studio 5
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In line with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Digital Youth Strategy, STUDIO 5 is mainly aimed at nurturing youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st century learning skills, as they develop in an all-pervasive digital environment. In… Read More

Summary

Unplugged lesson aims towards delivering the knowledge of movement and how computers are able to capture and simulate the human movement in order to help disorders and make their life easier and normal.

What You'll Need

Unplugged lesson plan that uses free platforms and free online content, everything is provided and free:

1- Duration : 1 Hour

2- Presentation

3- Tinker-Cad Platform

The Instructions

Motion capture

In this step, we will introduce the theory of motion capture to the participant, and we will present how this technology is helping disordered people.

1- We will ask the participant, what they think about motion capture.

2- Then we will present the meaning of motion capture as technologies that track the movement of people and objects.

3- Then we will present what is biomechanics.

4- Then we will present a video to the participant to show how biomechanics is helping disordered and how the technology is evolving.

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5- Then we will ask the participant about how motion capture and biomechanics are connected.

What we will be doing today

In this section we will show participant the needed module to capture and track movement and how its being implemented using servo motors.

1- We will show participant the two ways used in capturing movement, and we will demonstrate one of them.

2- Then we will show participant how this technology is involved in the sport realm.

3- Then we will present a video shows how we can track movement using cameras.

 

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What we will be simulating

In this step we will show the second step of capturing and tracking movement using hardware attached to the person or to the object we want to track.

1- We will show participant the final look of what we are going to do and starting the step-by-step instructions in order to build the needed circuit and code it.

2- Then we will discuss the microcontroller with participant, and we will define the board that we are going to use to build our circuit, which is the (Micro-Bit) board.

3- We will show a video present the board to the participant and the main parts are associated with the board.

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4- Then we will define the accelerometer module that are responsible for capturing the angles of the body or the object in reference to the ground.

5- Then we will describe the servo motor to the participant and how it works, and we are using it to demonstrate the captured angle and show it to the user.