Day 2: Bikes and FM-Transmitters
I attended the lecture "21st Century digital Bikes. It dealt with bikes that are using PWM motors to have some kind of digital assistance during ones ride.
Bottom line is that you can drive longer routes more easily, and at high speads of up to 25km/h, or higher if you don't care about laws. ;-)
if you want to mod your bike, note that you have to pay between 600 an 1000 Euro for a motor kit, and another 100 to 200 Euro for a set of battery. The eletronics and controller needed is peanuts. ;-) But you can use upright bikes, recumbent bikes and trikes.
The lecture was a nice introduction into this topic, including the fundamentals of the PWM motor. It was a pity that the sound system wasn't working properly, and that it was hard to understand the lecturer.
The next lecture that is of interest for me will be at 20:00 (8pm) today, Der richtige Weg in die Zukunft.
Until then I've to do some shopping. I need at least one fan for our server. It crashed last night, obviously on DIMM was connected properly and the machine crashed because memory was exhausted.
After I corrected the error the disk that reported failures yesterday evening started complaining again, so I took the server offline for half an hour.
Oh yes, and we need to get more drinks and food. The water is nearly empty, we're drinking about 2 bottles (1,5l) per person.
But now I'm sitting in a comfortable chair, still coding the rest of the bluetooth script (for mass up- and downloads).
Oh yes, and I still have to visit the C-Base tent for the USB-FM-Transmitter Workshop.
Bottom line is that you can drive longer routes more easily, and at high speads of up to 25km/h, or higher if you don't care about laws. ;-)
if you want to mod your bike, note that you have to pay between 600 an 1000 Euro for a motor kit, and another 100 to 200 Euro for a set of battery. The eletronics and controller needed is peanuts. ;-) But you can use upright bikes, recumbent bikes and trikes.
The lecture was a nice introduction into this topic, including the fundamentals of the PWM motor. It was a pity that the sound system wasn't working properly, and that it was hard to understand the lecturer.
The next lecture that is of interest for me will be at 20:00 (8pm) today, Der richtige Weg in die Zukunft.
Until then I've to do some shopping. I need at least one fan for our server. It crashed last night, obviously on DIMM was connected properly and the machine crashed because memory was exhausted.
After I corrected the error the disk that reported failures yesterday evening started complaining again, so I took the server offline for half an hour.
Oh yes, and we need to get more drinks and food. The water is nearly empty, we're drinking about 2 bottles (1,5l) per person.
But now I'm sitting in a comfortable chair, still coding the rest of the bluetooth script (for mass up- and downloads).
Oh yes, and I still have to visit the C-Base tent for the USB-FM-Transmitter Workshop.
cptsalek - 9. Aug, 12:07