Miguelitos 5000x

By Mateus Alan Koch ( mateusk@furb.br ), Nikolas Trapp ( ntrapp@furb.br ) and Paulo Ricardo Machado ( prmachado@furb.br ) Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB) — Blumenau, Brazil The short version This started as a college assignment about DC motors and LEDs. It ended up as a fake gym treadmill console called the MIGUELITOS 5000x , with 16 seven-segment digits, a spinning motor, and a control panel that looks like something you'd actually find at a gym. We're not going to pretend this is a groundbreaking engineering project. It's a student project. But we had so much fun building it in Visuino Pro that our professor suggested we write the whole thing up and publish it — so here it is, the complete build. And the best part? We never wrote a single line of Arduino code. Not one. Everything you're about to see was wired together with Visuino components. Time 00:27, speed 30 km/h, 111 meters, 4 calories, heart rate 110 bpm — and the motor spinning ...