It's Lives!

It's been some time since I've messed with this project. I've been working on bikes a bit in preparation of selling my SS and setting up my other MTB for a stint on the trainer this winter. Apparently, it's been enough to peek my kid's interest and refresh their memory on this project and a request was made to revive the home grown roller racing system to pass some time in the winter months.

So, I spent a quite a  few hours, digging around in boxes, our old laptop and my external hard drive and made a run at getting things rolling.

I set up in the basement first thinking things would be easy and it'd be ideal to have a bike near for some test rides. Unfortunately, nothing ever seems to be easy around our house. Or orderly.

Test rider, anxiously awaiting first go. 

Unfortunately, in typical form, I never wrote down any notes on how to hook up the sensors. Which quickly overheated and self destructed. Work moved to the kitchen table where after a full installation of software, registration of DLL's, near complete read of the Lab Jack manual and pillage and re-purposing of two bike computer harnesses I had lying around, things appear to be ready for business. 

I am curious how accurate things will be with use of legitimate bicycle computer sensors versus the ones I ordered to specifically meet the specs of the device.

More fun to come.