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1 month ago Hi Wes,
It’s a great pleasure to hear from you, and I am very grateful for the groundbreaking work you did on your version of the scoring box that I was able to take and develop further. I owe you a great deal for that, and I hope I gave you enough credit!
I am keen to collaborate, definitely. The hardware design of my version of the scoring box is not that much extra on top of your original, and I’m happy to let you use my Arduino firmware to try it out. Everything is on Github, as you’ve obviously found.
For your interest, here is a video from Facebook of the Android application in operation, with the remote scoring over Wifi facility being demonstrated:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159147286278732&id=558018731&rdid=X6DI8QuTaCyKwaKG
The scoring box is being powered over USB from an Android TV set-top box which is also connected to the TV (you can see it underneath the bottom left of the TV) which is running the Android application. The TV itself is an ordinary HDMI TV, though I’m sure you could run the application on a dedicated Android-based TV (I’ve never tried this, because I don’t have one).
The Android phone, which is propped up in front of the TV, is also running the same application, and is listening for multicast messages over Wifi being broadcast by the application running on the set-top box.
When a hit is detected, the scoring box sends a USB serial message to the Android application on the set-top box, and then this sends out a Wifi multicast message containing the same data. The application on the phone listens for this and remotely displays the score.
The application also allows you to configure a piste number (1-30 inclusive) when attached to a scoring box. When the application is run in remote scoring mode, it is able to display the score for all pistes that are configured. You can just swipe from piste to piste and get a live score.
I like this demonstration as the display that I’m able to get is not unlike those large scoring displays you see at international fencing competitions, but the equipment in my case costs a small fraction of the professional equipment!
I’ve also done tests where the scoring box is powered by an Android phone which is also running the application. The phone provides extra annunciation (including the beep when a hit is scored) and is able to power the scoring box for several hours.
Hope that gives you more of a feel for what I’ve been able to do with your design as a starting point. I’m based in northern England - I don’t know where you’re based, but I’m sure we can chat somehow, if over WhatsApp or Messenger, either is fine.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Robin
On 25 Jul 2024, at 10:04, Wesley New @.***> wrote:
Hi Robin.
I have been looking at this project and love what you have done. I am the author of the https://github.com/wnew/fencing_scoring_box https://github.com/wnew/fencing_scoring_box which I understand that you used in your project, I am so glad to see it being used.
I have been upgrading and creating a couple of PCB designs for my design and would like to collaborate. Would you be interested in having a chat sometime?
Regards
Wes
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Hi Robin.
I have been looking at this project and love what you have done. I am the author of the https://github.com/wnew/fencing_scoring_box which I understand that you used in your project, I am so glad to see it being used.
I have been upgrading and creating a couple of PCB designs for my design and would like to collaborate. Would you be interested in having a chat sometime?
Regards
Wes