<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Voorhees</b> <<a href="mailto:will.voorhees@gmail.com">will.voorhees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm also very interested in developing a Sports/Exercise style application for the openmoko. I'm an avid cyclist and I have developed a little program to read HR monitor data from the Suunto Heart Rate monitor using the Suunto PC Pod. It's a USB device that communicates using the ANT (
<a href="http://thisisant.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thisisant.com</a>) protocol. I'll try and post some info/code about my work sometime this weekend. We should be able to plug this into the openmoko to give it access to all kinds of sports monitoring equipment.
<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">now THAT's a cool idea... I'd been trying to figure out how to get HR data over bluetooth... but the only hardware for that I could find was a full ekg setup... while it would be cool to have that depth of information, it goes way beyond what I really need, or want to pay for. It also removes the need to make a bluetooth cadence sensor (imagine how big a battery that would need)
<br><br>Very nice, but I haven't had a chance to play with a PC pod... is it bus powered, or battery? has anyone tried it with an unpowered bus? (I'm still debating whether or not I'll upgrade to a GTA02)<br>
-- <br>Jeff<br>O|||||||O