A couple of my friends love the app Strava for tracking their runs. I don't run. I gathered some items sitting in shoeboxes around my home and made a robot counter for bench press. Here is a video of me testing it out (with robot voice counter):
An ultrasonic sensor sees the bar go past it and the python program running on the Raspberry Pi tracks whether the bar is going up or down and if it should increment the counter. You can see the sensor at the bottom of the taped section on the right post.
If you really wanted to, you could link it up with an app that tracks workouts. I wanted to add a load cell to the rack to weigh the bar before un-racking... but my shoebox load cells are only rated to 50lbs. The original project used a hall effect sensor and I was trying to get it to work with the magnetic barbell... but it was too hard to come down in the same spot of my chest every time to trigger the sensor.
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