Your tires are the only part of your car that touches the track. Everything else: your suspension geometry, your spring rates, and your tire pressures exists to help those four contact patches do their job as effectively as possible. And yet, for most amateur and club racers, the tires remain a black box. You feel…
Many have said the GoPro 4 is still the ideal cam for racing, for its resistance to overheating and the ability to handle large SD cards. Currently, RaceCapture supports GoPro control by connecting to the GoPro’s access point. This works well with the Hero3, but not reliably withe the Hero 4, due to the Hero…
Great news – our dealer, Conover Motorsports developed a CAN preset for the Volkswagen MK5 CAN bus. This was accomplished through extensive work reverse engineering the CAN bus on their own race car – we have two useful articles here and here on how to do this. It is a totally doable and fun exercise…
Here’s a guide on how to analyze tire temperature data in the cloud using the Podium app and TireX. Thanks to HQ Autosport and Rob Henretta for backing the Indiegogo TireX project and providing the data! TireX is available now through our worldwide dealers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLjb0QPF2Us
Big things are coming for RaceCapture and Podium – both software and hardware. Here’s a sampling of what to expect in Q1 2020. Some of these will be delivered in the coming weeks, so brace yourselves! RaceCapture app 2.0 – all about the analysis Chances are you saw the big news about the new Podium…
(You can also find this in our Kickstarter page) Podium Launched! First off – Podium has launched! Current RaceCapture/Pro users can live stream data, join race events, compare laps against other racers and more – and soon you will too with RaceCapture. WiFi Progress The full-meal deal for WiFi support is a pretty huge project. Since…
(You can also find this post in our Kickstarter update!) Got data? SOON. Team FUHaul’s RaceCapture dashboard! Rev B board: built and smoke tested It’s alive! We got the Rev B board built and smoke tested – meaning, we did basic verification of GPS, IMU (Accelerometer / Gyro) and CAN bus. Passed smoke test! Passing smoke test…
RaceCapture app: Analysis beta, dashboard and core improvements A number of improvements, mostly around the Beta analysis features but also in the core system and dashboard mode have been added. Get it for Windows / OSX from our software downloads section. 1.4.2 is available as Beta in the Google Play store. Instructions on participating in the…
New firmware – a couple of high value fixes and improvements As we’re working towards a 2.9.0 firmware release with tons of major enhancements, we realized there were a few low hanging fruits which would be really easy to get out. So, we present you with RaceCapture/Pro firmware 2.8.6. Get it now from our downloads page. There are…
Many months in the making: analysis is now available in the Beta release of the RaceCapture app! Get it below, and post your testing results feedback in the Beta Testers Group or our forums! We’re sure you’ll find quirks and bugs, but hopefully no crashes! Windows and OSX Download the RaceCapture 1.4.0 beta from the downloads…