The Glade 4.0

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Somehow I've never heard of these before. It really makes me want to find a use for one.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Get some gears you dirty hipster.

Its cool and all, but really only effective @ night. Out here, in the desert sun... not so much.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Why would you have any kind of assumption that a headlight would be useful when the sun is out?

Knowing nothing about him other than this video, he does seem to be a joyous geek doing something he loves. More power to him.

Raspberry Pi is a neat project box. I have a friend trying to get a string of them to work for a Convention check-in system.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I think its solving a problem that doesn't exist.

Spiffy cool, but not particularly useful or practical.

I mean, I can look down at my Garmin and see that I'm travelling at x MPH without carrying around any of that equipment

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Holy shitsnacks!

One of the appealing things about Raspberry Pis is finding spiffy cool things to do with them, and in this fellows project he is finding a different way to do something that already exists. Yes, it isn't all new and groundbreaking, but neither are the Pis. They are just small machines, about equivalent to the processing power of a 386.

You ride a velocipede because you want to. Driving a car would be a more practical way of getting where you are going and the bike is much less useful than a car in carrying things. With the bike you have more fun and get a bit of exercise. This is what makes you happy.

The odd speedometer will lead to a slightly less odd use of GPS and maybe nothing else. Then again it may lead him to a project no one else has thought of and ends up changing a part of the world for the better.

In the meanwhile he is having fun doing it and hurting no one in the process. What better purpose can he put his mind and time to?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Not saying he shouldn't do it, nor that it isn't neat.

Just that its a little silly, a bit frivolous, and not particularly useful.

Maybe I'm jaded, but I see the video and say "Yes, and?"

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Holy shitsnacks!

have you looked at your signature lately?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I'm not getting how a) you don't see this is prototype and will be greatly compacted if it ever reaches commercial viability and b) he already mentioned that it being a speedometer is not its only function, and that many people have already contributed good ideas for functionality that will be implemented.

Yes and? You got a problem with me? You sure seem to lately.



Ok, yeah, its a prototype, I get that it would be compacted. You're still mounting a projector on your handlebars that won't work during the day very well if at all.

Other functionality. It provides speed at the moment. You could probably hack in HR, cadence, time, even a GPS map thing. But still, you're up against the image being washed out by the sun during the day and the fact that projector + equipment is going to be a great deal heavier than just using a cycle computer or a Garmin or even a smartphone set to google maps or Strava. And as far as other people contributing ideas, I haven't seen them, haven't been anywhere but the original link when it was posted.

Its a cool little toy, but not particularly useful.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Not really Mus, just amused at your annoyance with "a little silly, a bit frivolous, and not particularly useful."

A lot of what we do around here fits that description quite nicely.

I do still find the brony phenomenon a bit odd, but its your thing, so have fun.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Ahh, gotcha.

Its not really annoyance, More kind of a "Huh, that's neat."

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Holy shitsnacks!