PhysTech is a student-organized online hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes any physical activities. It takes place annually, usually in the end of June.
Annual PhysTech Proceedings
We publish the proceedings of each AnimalHack event as a book through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Selected participants are invited to extend their project abstracts and publish them as book chapters.
Proceedings of PhysTech 2024
Shun Nagata and Sarasa Ouchi (eds.), Technology Hacks for Fitness, Sports and Outdoor Activities: Innovative Projects from PhysTech 2024, Binnovative Innovation Book Series, 109 pages, Binnovative, ISBN: 979-8-3031-7444-3, December 2024.
Book cover design: Rimi Yoshikawa
This book showcases a selection of award-winning projects from PhysTech 2024. PhysTech is an annual international hackathon for anyone who does, watches, analyzes and promotes any physical activities – including sports, workouts, fitness exercises, casual hobbies/pastimes and recreational adventures. It offers you a platform to address various needs, wants and challenges in physical activities and produce creative solutions (hacks) with technology.
This book consists of the following 8 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Hanna Suzuki, Glow in the Dark Skateboard: A Futuristic and Smart Skateboard
- Chapter 2: Rei Nagata: Fishing Tracker
- Chapter 3: Nikichi Tsuchida, Fencing Priority Referee: A Wearable Sensor for Data-centric Priority Judgment
- Chapter 4: Shun Nagata, Runs Created Value (RCV):A New Batting Performance Statistic in Baseball
- Chapter 5: Hanna Suzuki, Portable WBGT Tracker forOutdoor Athletes in the Heat
- Chapter 6: Vasipalli Eshan Aditya, Active+
- Chapter 7: Anshul Kotagiri, PushUpPro
- Chapter 8: Hiroki Kudara, Soccer Display