| Re: SPIN CLASS KICKED redux
Dane Jackson <dane@unseen.edu> wrote:
>Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and my team "won". Although, Heather picked the
>> winner by closing her eyes and selecting one of her
>> post-it notes with the team members at random...
>
>The engineer in me cries out to fix this 'problem'. I have no doubt
>this could be solved with some magnets, some reed switches or
>inductive coils, a passle of AD sample boards and a modest PC chassis
>for computing the totals and various statistical deviances for later
>analysis.
>
>What? Stop looking at me like that.
I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
networked to displays so you can see your output and
everyone else's on the front wall.
But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
away the people who need it most. The closest it should
get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
decide who's winning or losing.
If the display was just on the bike, and accurate, it'd
go a long way to calibrating your resistance.
--Blair
"I also want an odometer."
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