Application idea: Bicycle computer

[William Voorhees]

I've looked into this quite a bit, if you'd like to integrate with a
HR Monitor/Cadience/Speed sensor the option that makes the most sense
is to use the ANT(thisisant.com) wireless protocol to interact with
any of the sensor made by garmin or suunto.Suunto produces a USB->Ant
interface called the Suunto PC Pod. I was able to get it to work in
linux using the documentation available on thisisant.com a basic proof
of concept (that reads the Heart Rate data) in linux is available
here:

http://code.google.com/p/suuntopcpod/

Since the Neo 1973 has USB Host, you could plug in the dongle and have
it working without a problem.

-Will

On Dec 2, 2007 3:18 PM, Giles Jones <giles.jones at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 2 Dec 2007, at 14:41, Christian Surlykke wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm interested in using the neo1973 as a bicycle-computer, utilizing
> > it's gps abilities.
> >
> > Any comments/insights would be appreciated..
>
> I have a Garmin Forerunner and the battery life is 10 hours. I'm not
> sure the Neo could last that long?
>
> The software is possible, but I'm not sure anyone needs the screen on?
> it's better to download the stats after a run, not keep looking at the
> screen and risk an accident or just getting distracted. They say you
> should look far ahead and not at your front wheel, that way you don't
> get so tired :)
>
>
>
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