DEVELOPMENT OF A PORTABLE SPEED DISPLAY GADGET USING ARDUINO CONTROLLER WORKING SCHEME FOR WATER SPORT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

This project intends to assist water sport player during water sport activities. The objective is to develop the programming code for the Arduino controller which control project portable speed display and to test run the system on one water sport activities (example: kayaking). The focus is for water sport activities player who get limited device to present the present measurement in real time of speed. This problem occurs nowadays in most universities, where is the water sport player being estimated their performance by using time taken from one spot to another spot. This project is being developed using Arduino (IDE) software to monitor the application process by editing the program in Arduino software and can be uploaded to the Arduino microcontroller via a power jack cable. The working concept that GPS satellites transmit their locations to the receiver on the ground each second and the receiver to calculate the speed by translating the difference between the two latitude / longitude measurement units. The basic design technology used is the Arduino Uno board with modules attached to the GPS system, the 9V rechargeable battery and the OLED 128X64 I2C IIC Serial SSD1306 screen unit. As conclusion, this project expected to give much benefit and contribution to the water sport activities. It is believed that this project implementation has a great potential impact in the future and if the prototype function in line with the objectives, more features will be added to improve the project operation.