[d_runs_far]

Not for income, but for learning and to scratch my own itch. Finally picked up a raspberry pi and a USB ANT+ reader to pair with my heart rate monitor chest strap. I've had an old 26" LCD TV in our home gym that I will use as the display for the pi. Goal is to create a simple workout timer that also tracks heart rate and logs everything to a local db. My goals out of this are: - learn some python - do some hardware hacking (it's been way too long since I wrote control codes for RS-232 controlled video equipment in the 90's) - will probably do some image analysis down the road to do things like stride count on my treadmill, count reps in the squat rack - still mapping out the long term.

Next steps are to finish the plan for the mvp and then continue messing around. I also need to figure out the best input device for while in the gym and being quite sweaty; something wireless and somewhat rugged.

[fiftyacorn]

I had a project a few years back to connect my indoor bike trainer to google streetview -

https://dzone.com/articles/virtually-cycling-the-alps-with-a...

I ended up using the ant+ dongle and connected straight to my laptop. Using the GPL code from GoldenCheetah for the handshakes -

https://code.google.com/archive/p/routeviewer-antplus-bike-c...

It was a nice project but refresh rates were too slow - i should have built trainerroad!

I keep thinking about doing the same with rasp pi and retropi, then use hr, or speed to control a game. but dont have time at the moment