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Bike cabinet or desk idea
codeena:
Hey ark_ader,
I have a Cateye Gamebike and use it with the PS2. I also have the Cyberbike for the Wii. Both make exercising a lot more fun. You can use the Gamebike with most racing games, including Gran Turismo, but it seemed odd to play a car racing game with a bike. I'm going to see if I could use it for Prop Cycle by Namco or Paperboy. Good luck with your project.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: codeena on June 21, 2014, 11:36:01 am ---Hey ark_ader,
I have a Cateye Gamebike and use it with the PS2. I also have the Cyberbike for the Wii. Both make exercising a lot more fun. You can use the Gamebike with most racing games, including Gran Turismo, but it seemed odd to play a car racing game with a bike. I'm going to see if I could use it for Prop Cycle by Namco or Paperboy. Good luck with your project.
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Awesome! Thanks for that! Perfect! :applaud:
Now to BYOAC it!
http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/vr-bike/
DaOld Man:
Years ago, (probably 10-15) our local fitness club had a bike set up that had a monitor in front of it (much like the cateye, but the handles, pedals and monitor were all built into a cabinet like thing). The monitor (I think it was only a 15", but it was close to the rider), would take you through your selected course and the bike pedaling would get harder as you went up a hill, easier down hill, etc. The screen showed "real" scenarios and you would even have to dodge pedestrians and cars.
I thought it was neat, something different from the ordinary exercise bike.
Then somebody broke the thing. It must have been expensive to get fixed because it was out of order for months then it just disappeared.
DaOld Man:
What would be neat is if you could download google earth maps to get your local areas (or anywhere in the world) set up as courses for the bike.
And of course the magnetic switch to count pedal revolutions would not work.
You would need the pedals hooked up to a generator (dc motor), so the computer can more accurately measure speed and control resistance by applying more load or removing load from the generator.
Maybe the power from the generator could be used to power the computer, so you would even be saving electricity, another incentive to work out.
(Yeah ive been thinking about this ever since those fitness club days.)
Howard_Casto:
You can actually do that on the Wii U via google street view. (You walk on the balance board). Trust me, due to how slow google maps is it isn't all that fun.
Fro anyone interested I looked into the wire that's used on most common bikes/whatevers. On this stamina bike at least it's just a two wire deal. It appears to be a simple switch and I was able to get the display up to 28 mph just by rapidly shorting the two wires.
So the interface ark linked to is probably already built into most bikes that have that cheap AA powered display.
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