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“The hidden science and art underlying skateboard tricks is a source of fascination. This device 3 dimensionally tracks the skateboard position during the execution of tricks. The data and trails of the tricks are then used to create sculptures and immortalize the motion of the skateboard and the style of the individual skateboarder. Amongst the possible applications for this project, my work focused on creating artistic visualizations from skateboard tricks. There were two main technical challenges with this project: Achieve spatial position tracking with small electronics and without cameras and computer vision. Create a sturdy and compact case for the electronics”

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