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Congrats to you and Seth on
Congrats to you and Seth on a job well done.
I just read your interesting write up and have two requests to make.
1) Allow Time adjustment records. This would allow the additional flexibility for the race administrator to award time bonuses for primes during the race. Lots of bigtime races do this, especiallly the TdF. eg. Whoever is ahead at the four or six hour mark would earn a 5, 10 or 20 min time bonus, ie. reduction. On the flip side time adjustment records open the door to penalites also.
Another thing about primes is that they are great to sell to sponsors for even more goodies, etc.
2) Make the lap and overall status info available as a web service. This would allow teams that do want to underwrite the cost of a live GPS device to integrate both data streams and produce a website with calculations of our own choosing.
I am against bonuses
maybe extra prizes, but the the team who wins the race should be the team who wins the race. I think bonuses would take away from the endurance and self reliance aspect of the race.
other than that, I think the GPS thing would be fun if I understood what it means.
Yeah, I agree here. I think
Yeah, I agree here. I think if a penalty is worth noting, it should be an entire lap or the entire race that get disqualified.
edit: not to say that we couldn't give a prize for being ahead at the 4,6 etc hour.
More info will be available
More info will be available via web services next year. It's how the whole admin page functioned anyways. (getMaleSpeedStats returned some *ML, etc)
Loved it!
I loved the way the race was tracked. I was curious as to how the scanner units were connected to the internet. I was thinking there was a cellular connection. I did not think you had computers and DLS/Broadband connections at each place. If this could be worked into a cellular connection of some sort and run off batteries, it could be applied more easily to other types of races, like mountain bike type events, adventure racing and the like. Or it could be more easily used for events at the last minute.
You guys did an amazing job!
If you stick with the DSL/Broadband connection, you could also hook up cheap web cams at the readers so people could view the riders approaching and scanning and maybe falling over! Set up a few screens at Johnny's.
It would be cool
If next year those helmet cams were cheap enough to pass on to some of the leading team riders... it would make a hell of an U-tube video.
Hmmmmm, might be worth asking the guys who make them...
an Archos DVR + a cheap
an Archos DVR + a cheap bullet cam... oh man, the possibilities are endless.
that would be so awesome
I'd be soooo for this and would support it any way I could!
this has nothin to do with
this has nothin to do with tracking btw, so you should make this happen for next year :)
but I don't know the first thing about it
I'm definitely willing to do the research though. You know that those birds-eye cams just get my heart racing. So you think it can be done cheaply huh?
seth and i knew nothing
seth and i knew nothing about RFID a few months ago :)
very inspiring
I'll start digging and let you know what I find. I have two different cams in mind. A live feed of the leader or select crazy riders, and then higher quality for more people to be edited later. This is the roughest of ideas right now.
For MTB 24 Races?
From a technical standpoint, an internet connection is not needed at the checkpoints. They will log regardless of whether or not they have a connection to the 'tubes'. Batteries can definitely be used, and a discussion of using low power single board computers has come up in discussion.
The only place that sort of needs an internet connection is the start/stop, and that's only so people who aren't at the race can track it (one could easily setup a system with Wifi and what not to allow racers at the start/stop to view a web page that had the race status on it... no intertubes would be neccessary. For those of you who are techno-savvy, Squid Proxy and DHCPd would be used). Each lap would be semi-valid until the checkpoint PC's where retrieved and the laps 'validated' (ie have the checkpoint logs merged with the start/stop logs).
This system is incredibly flexible, that's how it was designed :)
In response
In response to making the readers more appliance based and keeping in touch with the open source nature of it all:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DSMG600/HomePage
I'll be doing some more development it seems.