It’s been a busy month and a half for our team! We’re shooting for our initial production of 25 RaceCapture/Pro Data Junkie Perks by the end of this month- which is … 10 days away! Here’s a bit on where we currently stand: Production Status We are flush with inventory to build all of the…
Author: Brent Picasso
And now the fun begins!
Wow! Through your support we smashed through our funding goal by over 150% ! Now we set to fulfilling our promises, and our goal is to surprise and delight you in the next couple of months. We have a lot of great information and updates coming up, starting with a big sensor initiative starting this…
Race Capture Pro Launched on Indiegogo!
We Did it! Presenting- Race Capture Pro: Open Source Data Acquisition, control and real time telemetry. Thank you for supporting our indiegogo project!
Kickstarter or Indiegogo?
Its finally happening! But which one? As we wind up to launch Race Capture Pro, our Open Source Data Acquisition and Control System, I stand on top of over 2 years of work – Including noteworthy bits like piles of un-assembled, flawed boards representing 6 hardware revisions, thousands upon thousands of lines of firmware and…
Help us Out – we need your media!
Help us out- we need your video clips and photos! We’re preparing a [b]special[/b] introduction video for our upcoming Data Acquisition System, RaceCapture Pro, and we need some inspirational video clips and images to include in our video! In car racing video, outside shots, spins, tire smoke, photos of your car and engines, dashboards, you…
Megajolt / __!!!__
Help us name the new version of Megajolt! First There was Megajolt Lite Jr. – everything a Marketing expert would say not to do: use the word Lite or Jr. in a name. Whoops! What did we know at the time? So, when we revised the design slightly, we re-cast it as Megajolt/E, E for…
RF Tech for an RF n00b
Are you an RF n00b? Maybe you know enough so that it’s not a complete blind spot in your work- enough that you ask a relative expert, like Greg Peek of Silicon Farmers when you need to lay out some high frequency traces. Greg took a look at my initial design around connecting an SMA connector…
RaceCapture/Pro little helper boards
Here’s a quick post to whet your appetite for RaceCapture/Pro. Actually, let’s be honest- it’s a filler post as we work on a bigger piece talking about real-time Race Car Telemetry. Yet, still cool! Here’s what we have cooking: So what do we have here? From top left, clockwise: JTAG Adapter: A JTag debugging /…
RaceCapture/Pro – hardware testing is painful
Oh, complexity When you’ve designed something with this many features- the demons of complexity come home to roost. And, when it comes to comprehensive testing it’s especially painful. Here’s a naked yet fully tested – manually tested – RaceCapture/Pro board with GPS and accelerometer modules installed. When I finished the spreadsheet identifying over 100 individual…
RaceCapture/Pro Testing
Here is a set of RaceCapture/Pro boards, currently under test. We just verified that all four hand-assembled accelerometer modules actually work! (small boards in green) Soldering fine pitch components is so often a sketchy exercise so I’m always a bit stunned when they come to life. Once they pass test they’ll be assembled in enclosures…