An athlete's health data should live in one place, and it should work for them. We centralize it into a single hub — and design and build the custom devices that feed it, from breadboard to custom PCB, entirely by students.
Help fund what we buildDonate →Each device exists because it answers a data question the hub cannot answer without it — not because the hardware was interesting on its own.
The hub. A cross-platform Flutter app that pulls workouts, nutrition, sleep, hydration, and biometrics into one profile, with an AI coaching layer that reasons across all of it. It stands entirely on its own — download it today and log everything by hand. Our devices just make that logging automatic.
Future devices get chosen the same way: ask what data would most improve an athlete's picture — or what a coach has told us they cannot currently see — then engineer the device that captures it. Explore the projects →
Everything we do falls under three connected principles. Individually, none of them is unique. Together, they are the organization.
Every device we build streams into MyFitnessTech, alongside everything a user logs by hand. One profile, one complete picture — not a dozen disconnected apps.
Circuit design, firmware, PCB layout, 3D-printed enclosures — the full stack is student-built, so the full data pipeline is transparent.
Our coaching layer reasons across every stream at once to surface why performance moved, what to change, and what is working.
Centralize health data into one hub and engineer research-driven devices around it — helping everyday people train smarter, athletes unlock more gains, and coaches lead their teams to more wins.
The same centralized data serves each of them differently
Hydration, activity, recovery, and progress without the guesswork or the subscription wall.
Reps, heart rate, effort, hydration, and recovery. Find what's working, fix what isn't, and improve against evidence instead of feel.
Fatigue, effort, readiness, and workload. Spot problems before they become injuries, at student-team prices rather than pro-lab prices.
Our near-term effort is aimed squarely at athlete teams — UW club and varsity programs, campus recreation groups, and small training organizations. The approach is deliberately bottom-up: before we design another device, we ask coaches what they actually want to know about their athletes, and we build toward those answers.
Open to all majors and experience levels — the work genuinely requires all of them
Defines the question before the hardware team builds the answer — literature review, testing protocols, and analysis of data we collect ourselves.
Takes a device from loose wires on a breadboard to a fabricated custom PCB in a printed enclosure.
Builds the hub itself — the MyFitnessTech app, the BLE protocols that feed it, and the models that turn raw signal into coaching.
Keeps the hardware funded and the org growing — because a student organization that can't fund its next PCB run stalls.
Every device moves through the same de-risked path — each stage validates assumptions before we commit money to the next.
Sensors and microcontroller wired loose, data streaming end to end. Proves the measurement is possible at all.
Soldered build in a wearable form factor, paired to the app. Proves it works off the bench, on a body.
KiCad schematic and layout, professionally fabricated and assembled. Proves it can be made repeatably and small.
3D-printed housing in Fusion 360, ergonomics and durability testing. Proves people will actually wear or carry it.
Integration, user testing, benchmarking, research data collection. Proves the numbers can be trusted.
Building Fitness Tech with passionate student leaders
These seats are empty right now — any of them could be yours.
An electrical engineer designs the PCB. A CS student writes the app. A data scientist trains the model. A bioengineering student designs the validation study. A business student secures the funding. Every skill has a place.
Start on Discord for day-to-day collaboration • HuskyLink and Instagram for events
Discord is where the day-to-day collaboration happens. HuskyLink and Instagram are where you'll find events and recruiting.
We've had hundreds of applications since we started, but limited funding for projects and space means we can't accept everyone. Support from individuals directly lets us build our devices, bring in and teach more students, and work toward getting industry tools into their hands.
On a computer, scan the code. On your phone, open your banking app, choose Send with Zelle, and use either of these:
fitnesstech[email protected]Zelle payments can't be reversed, so check that the name says Fitness Tech before you send.
Link and QR code on the way.
Link and QR code on the way.
Email [email protected] and we'll do our best to make it as easy as we can.
Fitness Tech is a student-led organization at the University of Washington, founded in October 2025 by Andrew Gui, an electrical and computer engineering student, and advised by Prof. Sep Makhsous. Our app, MyFitnessTech, is already published on the iOS App Store and Google Play and centralizes workouts, nutrition, sleep, and hydration into one place. We ask coaches what data they want from their athletes, like how many jabs a boxer throws per practice and whether that holds up or drops off over a session, and we build the devices that capture it so coaches can see it on the spot.
Our 25 members work across four teams. Hardware members learn PCB design in KiCad, 3D modeling in Fusion 360, 3D printing in PrusaSlicer, and firmware in the Arduino IDE. Software members learn backend tools like Firebase, Flutter, and Google Cloud and how to connect them with AI. Research members run validation studies to prove our devices are accurate and credible, and work toward presenting at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Business members run marketing and outreach and build connections with teams and the community.
Proving our devices are credible requires building several units to test, so we've submitted funding proposals, but nothing is guaranteed yet.
Thank you for backing a student team. Questions? [email protected]