Hercules

Overview

Custom control for a smarter training system.

Hercules is a Cyberus Labs project built around controlling and extending a smart fitness platform. The goal is to create a custom workout control system that makes the equipment more flexible, more transparent, and easier to use.

Challenge

Understanding hardware behavior beyond the original software.

The original fitness platform provided limited control and depended on software that was not reliable long-term. To build a better experience, the system needed to understand how the hardware communicated, how resistance was controlled, and how workout flows could be automated safely.

Solution

A customizable platform for structured training.

Hercules explores hardware communication, command decoding, resistance control, workout planning, and UI-driven exercise workflows. The project turns a closed fitness device into a more customizable platform that can support structured training, custom modes, and future automation.

My Role

Protocol exploration, control logic, and workflow design.

Danny designed and developed Hercules as a personal engineering project, including protocol exploration, control logic, UI planning, and workout workflow design. The work combines software development, hardware communication, automation, and product thinking.

Impact

A foundation for extending real physical systems.

• Created a path toward custom control of smart fitness hardware.
• Explored resistance control and hardware communication workflows.
• Designed the foundation for structured workout planning.
• Demonstrates the ability to investigate, understand, and extend complex systems.

What It Demonstrates

Software and hardware working as one system.

• Hardware/software integration.
• Reverse engineering mindset.
• Product-focused UI planning.
• Automation design.
• Practical problem solving.
• Building tools around real physical systems.