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Hi All,
I would like to apologies for this post if it breaks this newsgroups rules and etiquette in advance. I am in the process of writing some software that enables you to log your rides and hence see your progress over time. In a few weeks time, I shall have a beta release that will allow you to login and store your ride information. I am currently looking for 10 testers who would like to use this system and provide me with: 1. Bugs and issues 2. Feedback ïƒ* good and negative. 3. Finally some suggestions on how to improve the software. Obviously I am looking to market this software, so the 10 ‘beta users’ will be afforded a free life time membership. Please email me: for more information. Cheers Jonathon aka JB |
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Hi All,
I would like to apologies for this post if it breaks this newsgroups rules and etiquette in advance. I am in the process of writing some software that enables you to log your rides and hence see your progress over time. Right, so we have a spreadsheet (even if I'm too thick to do graphs in gnumeric). Put it away tiger. Rather than a bit of geek flexing, your post is providing no real benefit to this group. what are you providing that is extra? Now we get to something I can reply to properly. Thankyou for asking a serious question. I am hoping to: a. Create a fairly tight community. b. The ability to log your rides (duh) c. Integrate the data with your riding goals and objectives, so that you will be able to map your progress hopefully better than you currently do. d. If the idea takes off, I am looking at engineering a hardware data logger. I love cycling, I love attempting to get fitter and stronger, so I thought this might be a way to use both of my passions in life (cycling and software). In a few weeks time, I shall have a beta release that will allow you to login and store your ride information. I am currently looking for 10 testers who would like to use this system err, operating system? Its web based. probably mickeysoft virus ware. No doubt. Would you have preferred I use Perl? Or how about that wonderfully lovely language that is Java? I hope that answers some of your questions, please feel free to continue with your whole dick measuring geek contest. |
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Instead of your continuation of the mini wing wang worlds...
Sorry all. Can you tell us what your product will do, that others haven't done already? As someone mentioned earlier, there are a hell of a lot out there already. To be completely honest, I noticed this just the other day. To be fair there are some fairly good systems out there. In essence the system will: 1. Log user rides and provide graphical data. Including: *Route description. *Route Distance *Time Taken *Start Location *End location *Ride description -- tempreture, wind, how you felt. *Average heart rate *Cals burnt. My ultimate goal is to create a data logger for a bike, that essentially maps your cadence, distance, time, speed, heart rate and so forth. The data is logged to an SD or USB drive that is then imported into your database. This would allow us to graph some fairly interesting things. cadence v speed. cadence v time. cadence v heart rate. This sort of data would be able to provide you with an awful lot of information. However this is still some way away (possibly 6 months) 2. Training targets * Goal average speed per route. * Goal time per route. * Goal cadence per route. * Goal heart rate per route. 3. Blogs that will allow the community to grow and be inspired. 4. The ability to organise training rides, or to find a cyclist / groups to ride with and so on. At the end of the day, it is an idea I have had for some time - its obviously not original, although I did think it was If I only have 10 people use the system, at least 10 people are using something that I developed with the very best intentions. |
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BrettS wrote:
I already log my ride times and distances and have done for the past 3 years, but I have thought about creating a data logger, not for any training purposes, but just for curiosity. My problem is that my electronics skills are hardly 'leet. Doesn't matter unless low weight and low power consumption are important {:-). Do any existing bicycle toys^h^h^h^h"odometers" have download interfaces? How much would you spend on a PDA to do this? Or might be easier to adapt an old laptop for this, old meaning serial and or parrallel port and utilise the circuits in Silicon Chip some time ago. New-old lappie would have usb interface. Lappies interest me because I have some and they usually have a PCMCIA slot to take a GPS card. Of course, the data logger I had in mind would include distance, time, cadence, HR and altitude. Temp might be another. All do-able, just another interface card plugged into the the bus back plane. I am beginning to think that I should not have junked those 7 vote counting "computers" that were binned recently. S100 bus, 8 cards 6"x10", 8085 chips(kept those), etc. Perhaps it was the fact that I'd have needed a bob trailer to tow the batteries to power it. But seriously, that is how you would start, until you sort out each sensor, then over time and versions it could shrink until you have a bottle cage version that you unplug and bring inside to connect to power pack and computer interface cable. |
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