Re: [Paddlewise] RE: Electronic paddle - was bracing and power

Peter,

I've uploaded some of the data I collected today to Box.net and sent you an
invite to share the folder. That is a separate e-mail.

Best,

Carey

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:54 PM, <rebyl_kayak_at_energysustained.com> wrote:

> Carey wrote
> .........I was stumbling around in the Android Marketplace looking for cool
> stuff for my phone (and I use that term "phone" loosely) and I ran across an
> app for rowing that displays and records the boat acceleration and also
> infers stroke rate, and some other things by using the "phone's" integrated
> GPS and three axis accelerometer. It's pretty good. Both the app and my
> device. .......http://nargila.org/trac/robostroke/wiki .......
> It of course does not integrate paddle dynamics,
> .................................
>
> G'Day Carey,
>
> That is very clever though I know very little about using that kind of
> phone. I'm guessing it is something like an ipod and has one of those
> screens that you can turn round and the image turns with you?
>
> Does it have Blue tooth? If so can you download the data through the
> bluetooth port onto a computer? Then it would be relatively simple to time
> link the data to a Talon paddle so long as they were willing to fit a blue
> tooth modem to their data stream. Alternatively one could start the data
> recording on both paddle and phone and then provide a synchronising single
> by tapping the  paddle on the kayak before and after the test run. crude but
> effective synchronising.
>
> Any further details would be greatly appreciated?
>
> All the best, PeterO
>
>


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