Bicycle generators are becoming increasingly well-known in today’s world as we move toward a society that’s ever increasingly reliant on renewable energy sources, and as we find simpler and cheaper means to generate electricity in remote and isolated areas of the world. For our senior design project, we wanted to use the concept of cheap renewable energy in order to power a video game that could be entirely isolated from any grid in order to allow two users to compete against each other while still being able to perform some exercise, and to minimize any running costs of our system.

One of the inspirations behind creating this project was that we wanted to find a way to encourage competitive people of all ages to frequent the gym more often. Our project serves as a way of both improving cardiovascular health, and also hopefully encourages our users to stay in the gym afterwards, with our game being the first of many exercises that our users would perform.