Hi bill2009,
I have 3 motorcycles, and I just recieved my first arduino. And, I've dreamed of "upgrading" my '80s bikes for a long time. Thanks for the inspiration!
Ever thought of an in-helmet HUD for your speed, temp, gear, plus?
I'm so glad other people are doing this...
It's flickered through my fevered brain. I sometimes look at those alarm clocks that can project the time on the ceiling and I think hmm....
At the moment I just have a simple array of 5 leds permaently mounted to show what gear the bike is in. Any other I/O is done by serial cable or bluetooth.
My secret weapon is a new nerd-watch from TI that I'm hoping to mount on my handlebar as a wireless display.
I think you might have the watch backward, if I understand right the devkit lets you change the watch's programming, which can take sensor data and display it.
I think you might have the watch backward, if I understand right the devkit lets you change the watch's programming, which can take sensor data and display it.
You would need the Arduino to be attached to one of the sensor transmitters so the watch would receive the value, decode it and display it.
The watch is reprogrammed via USB, but communicates by spy 2 wire or some kind of sensor wireless.
I'd be delighted to be wrong. What's an example of a sensor transmitter? I looked at the technique being used for the heartrate monitor but it was proprietary hardware and software - not something I could tie in to.
The CC1110 and or the CC1111 seems to be the chip that does the RF stuff and there are separate devkits for it, one using the USB dongle and it does mention virtual serial port. I don't know about the link - it works from here (in the USA). the CC1110 devkit page is at: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/cc1110-cc1111dk.html You might want to try googling for the watch and or CC1110
Thanks. I did see those chips although not the $650 development kit. I keep an eye on the mailing list to see if anyone gets interested in micro to watch comm but i haven't seen it yet.