The M!nder logo has been finalized, and should be published in the next few days. Thanks to the efforts and creativity of the great Ko Kimura at No Shortscuts Studio, here in Vancouver. An outdoor test of one parking-scenario has been carried out, successfully. I’ll post a link to it here, if I don’t forget. […]
I’ve had to learn more about angle grinders than I’d ever wanted to know! I have to run various tests of the system, using an angle grinder. (Saws, bolt cutters etc will also be in the attacks/threats tested.) For now, a basic, brief test is to be carried out, showing a snippet of the system’s […]
A lot of time was spent, over the (2+?) years, to find a way of generating loudness via the bike frame. While this is very possible, it will not be a commercial product, installable by average consumers. And frame modifications are never a desirable option! 🙂
Back in June 2016, when this whole thing started, my idea was to place the system within a bike’s frame. This caused numerous problems, which I will outline in future posts, as time permits. Below is shown a photo of one of the August 2017 tests. Literally hanging by a thread is a speaker or […]
A faint attempt at lazily, quickly getting an idea of how much of an effect a horn could have on loudness: It had an effect, but with the expected loss in quality. The loudness was far from enough, anyway.
A June 2017 test. It seems to be a surface transducer being tested on a tin can–in this case, a Nellie’s laundry detergent’s–to check for improved loudness. IIRC all such tests failed to impress me. And they were indoors!
This was a test to see what riding away would appear like, to the system. The electronics were placed in a shoe box, atop a bike trailer. The laptop rests on some padding, IIRC, in order to make things a bit more difficult for the system. The bike then rode away.
This seems to be a SAMD20 board (which IIRC is the only 32-bit CPU I ever tried for this product), possibly with a bno055. I think it was an accelerometer/gyro/whatsit I was testing back then.
This was one of the early experiments with playing a human voice. The shot was taken on 8 April 2017. It was a Nuvoton board, I recall.
A 2019 test of the system’s measured response to shakes. It certainly is too measured in this instance, but refinement was planned for later. And theft-detection is incorrect as well; but that was to evolve later. Note: As of today, there is no plan to include voice messages in the final product. Instead, there will […]
