Intelligent Deterrence
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 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.
As yet, the product is months away from any sort of release. But, I’m already thinking about the experience of the initial customers. It’d be best if the early buyers provide feedback about their experiences. This can be fed back into the design cycle, hopefully improving the product. To encourage this, companies typically find beta […]
No bicycle lock is safe, I said yesterday. It’s a mere finger when the dyke itself needs reconstruction. A pitiful dearth of safe cycling routes, in most of North America, is the oldest, and most obvious, of the systemic disregards for micro-mobility. Similar neglect is seen in other aspects of cycling on this continent. There […]
Of the innumerable videos out there, showing the blight of bike theft, this is a rather comprehensive one, in showing all the major attacks on assorted defences sold in your local bike shop. The good people at the City of London Police have kindly arranged a demonstration of assorted cable cutter, bolt cutter and angle […]
A February 2020 test that I shot on video. While there had, of course, been years of tests of the system, those were development tests–of the electronics, and of the firmware. This checks the loudness outside. The device is not inside an enclosure, but wrapped flimsily atop a saddle. The alarms and messages are not […]
