SHUTLECOCK FEEDER AND COLLECTER (SHUFLEC)

Abstract

In this report a wireless shuttlecock launcher and mechanically operated collector (SHUFLEC) system is designed and fabricated to help badminton athlete and coach improve their training session. The major issue that all athletes encounter during training is that at least two people are required as well as that they cannot train on their own. Other than that, after the training session, wasting time and energy collecting shuttlecocks around the badminton court. This product can be applied in the badminton training to facilitate the player training without the support of another player and no need to waste the time to collect the shuttlecocks around the badminton court that were used during the training session. The initial project design with the aid of Autodesk AutoCAD 2020 and Autodesk Inventor Professional 2020 to revamp the project’s design with suitable material selections. The joints of the mainframe are attached through MIG Welding. This project is based on an Arduino Uno. In this project, we perform the following operations using an Android device and an Arduino Uno so we can control the machine using appliances via Android app through HC-05 Bluetooth module. The result for average distance taken of the shuttle feeder part is 8.65m when the machine is operating in the voltage of 1.2V and for the collector part the average time taken to collect shuttlecock using machine is 5.7 minutes while the manual method is 8.8 minutes. This shows that this SHUFLEC machine can make a player to master skills, learn to hit back the shuttle in a correct manner and also can shorten the process as the manual method require the person that collecting to collect the shuttlecock to bow down as they need to collect the shuttlecock on the floor. By developing this SHUFLEC machine can overcome all the issues that we listed before.