[Rory Hyde] and [Scott Mitchell] are exploring several projects that add more information to public spaces. The first is the Spoke-o-dometer a persistence of vision device that can display bicycle speed and distance traveled. To develop the device, they first bought a few POV kits to test out. They decided to build their version using an Arduino. Once they had the display proof of concept working, they added a hall effect sensor like the SpokePOV so they could determine speed and orient the display. Check out their project site for plenty of example code and development details.
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Ooooh, cool! You could even program it to display user-created messages! I think you can do the math.
The first thing I thought of was as soon as Google sees it they’ll buy it. With Google Adwords revenue down, that would be a great place to sell more space.
JCE
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This can be taken to the next level to add 2d or 3d images, what a sight that would be!
hey do you have the code you used for this?
I’m working on a similar project and I’d like to see how you did it. Send me an e-mail or post a comment here. Looks awesome!
Yes code sharing will be highly appreciative. Me too is working on a similar project.