Samsung Smart Bike MCUs For Your Bike

Bikes present a wide range of opportunities to use microcontrollers to improve your riding or at least give you a new experience. This posts briefly looks at a few of those opportunities.

Samsung Smart Bike

Tonights collection of bike related MCU projects and ideas was prompted by reading "Samsung Smart Bike packs an Arduino and frickin’ laser beams," a June 12 post in Geek.com. Geeks post said:

"Samsung’s been working on a concept bike in conjunction with Maestros Academy...For the smart bike in particular, the design team wanted to help reduce the number of cyclists involved in accidents each year...Front and center (literally) on the bike is a magnetic smartphone mount. Slap on your Galaxy phone and fire up the app to control the bike’s systems. There’s onboard LED lighting for nighttime riding and a rearview camera so you can safely keep tabs on traffic as it approaches from behind — video is streamed to your bike-mounted phone. And then there’s the four bike-mounted lasers. The lasers on Samsung’s bike aren’t designed to take out incoming foes...They’re part of the bike’s safety system. Fire them up, and a virtual bike lane gets projected onto the roadway to make sure motorists give you enough room to

ride...How does the bike communicate with your phone? It’s hiding the maker’s secret weapon, an Arduino, which gets paired via Bluetooth. The Samsung app also

Laser bike lane concept

does the typical social fitness stuff. You can track your rides and share them with other smart bike users, see where other people are riding, and even keep tabs on how many people are riding the same path as you in real time."

The Samsung Smart Bike is just one type of MCU-bike project. Using MCUs on bikes can be divided into five categories:

1. MCUs improving biking experience but not connected to the bike
2. Bike-connected MCUs for independent projects
3. MCUs integrating multiple biking features
4. MCUs connected to bike and to smartphone
5. MCU-controlled e-bikes

Numerous MCU posts could be written about each of the above categories of bike-mcu combos. For tonights post well just briefly descibe each category and mention related projects or webpage links.

Flora brake light backpack

The first category, bike-related MCUs which arent bike-connected, covers items like this Arduino blinking bike patch backpack, this Flora brake light backpack or this jacket which uses an Arduino to light up an arrow or other rider-visibility features. The MCU in these projects arent actually connected to the bike or integrated into its functioning, but they do create a better riding experience.

The second category, bike-connected MCUs for independent projects covers items like the bike speedometer from Instructables or some of the Arduino-bike projects from the Intro to

Bike speedometer

Arduino Pimp My Bike series. To find a specific bike-mcu project youre interested in, just Google for  bike Arduino [or microcontroller] xxxxx, where xxxxx is the topic or type of bike feature or function in which you are interested.

MCUs integrating multiple biking features includes projects like this bike dashboard Instructables which integrates a lighting system and a speedometer. An Arduino or other MCU system can control a wide variety of sensors and outputs, so you could include front and back-illuminating LEDs or lasers, blinking LEDs for turn indication, photosensors to automatically turn on your bike lights and lots of other physical computing features that are functional, cool or both.

Bike dashboard

The fourth category, MCUs connected to the bike and a smartphone have a huge upside for innovation and benefit in the next five to ten years as smartphones add sensors and computing power and as MCUs continue to become more powerful. This category includes projects like the Samsung Smart Bike. The MCU controls and communicates with a wide variety of devices and sensors, and the smartphone can easily connect your bike with the internet and with your friends or other bikers.

MCU-controlled e-bikes represents the largest financial impact of MCUs on biking to-date. China has been a huge market for e-bikes because of the size of the population, the low cost transportation provided by e-bikes and the effort to reduce or minimize pollution caused by gas or diesel vehicle engines. Here are two e-bike overview PDFs; a Samsung application note "Electric Bike Controller System" and a Texas Instruments application report "Hardware Design Considerations for an Electric Bicycle Using a BLDC Motor."

What type of MCU-bike project would you like to work on with the Humboldt Microcontrollers Group? Come to the next meeting, tomorrow night, Thursday, August 21, at 1385 8th Street, Arcata, California, and discuss that project with the MCU group.

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Rain Rain Go away

Its one of those things. You either have too much of it or the tanks are dry. There is no in between.

The lagoon (swamp) is full, the river (creek) that meanders through our property is half way up to the bridge and climbing, the Roadway (bush track) is littered with puddles. But do we care...?? Nahhh. We have resilliance and fortitude. (and we are as thick as two planks)

So because we are sort-of confined to quarters here is the next episode..:

 Genetically Modified Salmon Could Be On Your Plate Soon

 From Mark Wright, a Sludge Seperator

From GROW ORGANICALLY

Some Video on Virgin Islands Uni

The surface of the water erupts in turbulence as the fish feed with noisy gulps.

From LimeLife A/P

WHY DO AQUAPONICS

Back here a look at A/P Instalation

After all of those, you might enjoy a trip out to Moffats Farm

Please take a second to read what’s been happening down at CCCM, and perhaps pass  this article on to any friends that might be encouraged or inspired by it.  Thanks!!

"Could you pass the following link on to friends. There will be several more in the series. However this one is important as it shows the storm damage that placed 230 people out of work and did so in less than 24 hours. The building you see was a shrimp processing plant where 230 people worked each year in order to make some sort of a living..." We sure can do that...

" My BF wanted to combine both of our hobbies into one. His love of aquaculture and my hobby of growing things. Welcome our new aquaponics set up."

"Ask any Boulder home gardener what they miss the most during the wintertime and they’ll most likely respond that it’s.........."

Enough already, Exit Stage Right, Until next we meet....
Good aponics to YOU.

Ozzie

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Oh dear Where did Friday go

Apologies my friends, weve had a mishap.  Our Bobcat got bogged in the mud. Since the flood weve had a few nights of rain and the ground we normally can work/drive on had taken all the wet it could handle. So my mate drove into a scrubby area to remove an old motor and when he went to turn the bobcat she dug into the ground and the mud just swallowed half of each of the four wheels.

Well we tried for three hours to get it out with a 2 ton car jack and lots of timber, then we had the guy at the back of our place with his tractor to give us a hand. They have trotters and their own training track. But the tractor was only two wheel drive with a small motor and it didnt even budge the bobcat. eventually we got the thing out and finished the work but by then Friday was a gone chicken.

So here I go with the new WEEKEND Issue... Please Enjoy:



Upscale, Democratize, and Internationalize Aquaponics

(Event is in the planning stage; more details coming soon!)

Sweet Water Organics announces it’s very first winter workshop. Here’s your chance to discuss sustainable agriculture with some of the best and brightest creative minds. Participating organizations include:

University of Wisconsin’s School of Fresh Water Science

Columbia University School of Architecture and Urban Design

Stirling University and Aquaponics UK

The Aquaponics Source, organizer of AquaponicsCommunity.com

Milwaukee Department of Community Development

What: Winter Workshop One

When: Friday, January 21 - Sunday January 23

THE REST OF THE DETAILS INSIDE...

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Kaiser Permanente to "Walk the Walk" with Hawaii island school garden network

Community to come together on Martin Luther King, Jr. "day of service" to promote healthy living.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:40 AM HST

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii physicians and clinic staff will set aside their sterile medical garb, equipment and working environment and, instead, get down and dirty working in the dirt - volunteering in Hawaii Island school gardens to celebrate the 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. "Day of Service" on Monday, Jan. 17. In doing so, they hope to practice....

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Start Your Aquaponics Greenhouse Now! (WITH VIDEO)....

 

Life, the universe and everything

Taking students out of the classroom to do ‘real’ research and pairing their teachers with those working in the field is getting children enthused about science’s possibilities

It is Tuesday morning and a double-free for a group of Year 12s. But instead of lounging around the common room or catching up in the library, 30 maths, ICT and science pupils have given up their free time to look at satellite images of the River Mersey.
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Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference Planned for March
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 01/14/2011

Fish Farmers from Wisconsin and around the midwest will be meeting this winter for the 16th Annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference. The March 11-12 event will be held at the Country Springs Hotel & Waterpark in Pewaukee.

The conference will feature aquaponics, marketing, pond management, aeration, fish processing, economics, species breakout groups and more. Several out of state speakers are attending, including Dr. Gary Jensen, Dan Deisenroth, Dr. Robert Kim and and Henry Clifford....

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Hands-on agriculture at KI school

PAULA THOMPSON

14 Jan, 2011 03:00 AM

KANGAROO Island High School students are getting a hands-on agricultural experience through KI Community Educations Parndana campus.Agriculture teacher Trevor Bolwell said there was a working farm adjacent to the school where students were taught a broad range of subjects related to the industry.
"The kids are involved with prime lamb production and run a feed-lot, so they have to go through and work out rations," he said.
They also learn about aquaponics through a barramundi growing-out facility.
Attached to the facility is a recycling system where the waste water is transported to trays with various seedlings including herbs, spinach, beans and lettuce.

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‘Living Food BankTM’ to Provide Fresh Fish and Vegetables in Haiti
The Living Food Bank, developed by Nelson and Pade, Inc, produces fresh fish and vegetables..MORE
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VIDEO: GrowHaus in Denver Colorado - The Urban Conversion and Aquaponics...VIDEO...
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From Squidoo: My aquaponic organic garden
Could Aquaponics gardening make our wishes (at least some of them) come true? Dont we all wish to have organic food for ourselves and our family members to eat healthy and without any preservatives? Wouldnt you like to have the opportunity to go to your backyard and pickup your organic fruit and vegetables for your daily use without thinking about how much it would cost you? If the answer is yes then your wish could come true very soon. ...

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Good morning, aquapons,
 If you havent dropped by to visit our Aquaponic Gardening community lately, you might want to.  It is a bustling place with over 800 members now!
 And you now have a new option for following our activity - Hootsuite! Hootsuite is a very popular social media aggregator for monitoring Facebook, Twitter, etc. all in one place.  Now you can add our community to what you follow, and make updates directly from your Hootsuite desktop.  Just click here for simple instructions to get started.
 Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
 Sylvia
 (Hey if youre not a member...Why Not....Editor)

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( Im sure I had this shop in the Digest several months ago.....)
FARM: shop - East Londons radical experiment in food growing and community building

David Hawkins
FARM: shop in Dalston is a revolutionary new take on urban food self-sufficiency: a cafe and community hub with its own rooftop chicken coop, pigs and floating garden
    FARM: shop is a place where people can interact with farming

Just along from the new Dalston Junction train station, opposite East London standard issue billboards and a fried-chicken shack, stands the pleasing facade of a freshly revived shopfront. Yet this isnt the usual tedium of homogenized gentrification

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Afnans Aquaponics - Nothing in Particular - General Update
One Tilapia missing. It was eight, today only seven left. Need to investigate what happen, I dont think cats will take fish in water. Previous batch survive and none was missing.(VIDEO)

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 HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS -
Your business can be a daunting task, because most of the work requires special skills and tones of money to invest. While you can acquire the necessary skills, money is not easy to solve the problem. However, there is a business that requires investment, and the minimum is repaid in less than a year. It called Aquaponics agriculture or Aquaponic can change your life and well.
Aquaponics includes the cultivation of vegetables with water from the aquarium. You just have to wait for the fish tank in a square, about a month to supply enough water organic nutrients for plants, so the spread....(MORE)
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Shop Growfresh Organics and More online
on Jan 15 in News | ShareThis

Growfresh Organics and More is proud to bring online Arkansas’ first and only hydroponics and aquaponics e-commerce site. Arkansas was once a pioneer in bringing aquaponics sytems into school systems in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. We are glad to now bring information and products for these fantastic systems to the retail market online and in the store at 2600 South Zero Street in Fort Smith. If you are just now learning about hydroponics and aquaponics or if you are a seasoned veteran, we...MORE

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Well I caught up.... Sorry again for the delayed report, but thats farming I guess. If it can go wrong....
See you soon, Take Care....
A U S S I E

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Make Your Arduino Go Fast A Modern Go kart

Electric Arduino Go-kart (from Instructables)

As the Hackaday post "Electric Go-Cart Has Arduino Brains" says, most modern vehicles have lots of their functions controlled by computers (or microcontrollers / MCUs). The 2014 go-kart thats the subject of this post is truly a modern vehicle in that respect.

And...the go-kart will make your Arduino go pretty fast. In MPH, not GHz.

I first saw this go-kart mentioned on Google News in the Unocero article "Un Go-Cart eléctrico que usa Arduino," so if your native language is Spanish, you may want to read that version of this tech story. Google News is nice that way, because sometimes I see a non-English article that lets me know about a story Id not have read if it wasnt in English. Google Translate certainly is not perfect or even almost perfect, but it usually gives a usable version of the article, and you can do more Googling based on the Skynet-translated version of a non-native language article.

Steering wheel showing LCD screen (from Instructables)

It appears the source of the story about this Kartduino is the "Electric Arduino Go-kart" Instructable done by a 15-year old from California. The Instructables write-up presents some of the technology used to build the go-kart, but it cautions the reader that its not a complete guide to building the vehicle. Heres a taste of the write-up:

"The drive setup uses a Hobbywing Xerun 150A brushless electronic speed controller to control a Savox BSM5065 450Kv motor. Batteries are 3x zippy lithium polymer - 5 cells, 5000mah. The motor has two large fans I pulled out of an old computer for cooling, mounted right over the motor. The chain drive is a 1:10 overall ratio, using a 15 tooth on the motor chained to a 30 tooth on the jackshaft, and a 9 tooth from the jackshaft to a 45 tooth on the wheel. The tires are 10" diameter so at 20 volts the top speed is around 30 mph. The ESC is controlled via PWM from the arduino. A throttle potentiometer on the steering wheel controls this. Constant current is around 40-50A, and the batteries last around 30 minutes with an average speed of 10-15mph. It requires a small push to get started (really, the motor just has to be rotating) and accelerates extremely fast...This uses a sensorless brushless motor. They are not capable of starting under load. It may need a quick push before it can start. Dont try to start them under load. I already had one motor burn out because it stalled and the current burnt the coils insulation. Sensored motors overcome this problem."

Im sure if the Humboldt Microcontrollers Group ever wanted to build a similar kartduino, Ed and others in the group would have plenty of ideas and knowledge on how to improve the design, with sensored motors or an alternate solution to the sensorless brushless motors that burned out on the design shown in the Instructables.

Go-karts wooden electronics control box (from Instructables)

With regards to the MCU in this zippy little go-kart, the Hackaday post covers the different parts of the vehicle integrated with the Arduino.

"In addition to the throttle control, the Arduino is also responsible for other operational aspects of the vehicle. There are a bunch of LED lights that serve as headlights, tail lights, turn signals, brake lights and even one for a backup light. You may be wondering why an Arduino should be used to control something as simple as brake or headlights. [InverseCube] has programmed in some logic in the code that keeps the break lights on if the ESC brake function is enabled, if the throttle is below neutral or if the ESC enable switch is off. The headlights have 3 brightnesses, all controlled via PWM signal provided by the microcontroller. There is also an LCD display mounted to the center of the steering wheel. This too is controlled by the Arduino and displays the throttle value, status of the lights and the voltage of the battery."

An interesting alternative kartduino I ran across whilst doing research for this post is the

LOLrioKart (by MIT student)

LOLrioKart (see picture at left). This slightly-strange vehicle was created from a shopping cart by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student. Might be handy for going on a quick trip to Wildberries or the Co-op for groceries.

Speaking of modern vehicles and the increasingly important roles played by MCUs in vehicles, maybe Ford, another vehicle manufacturer, a microcontroller manufacturer or an electronics distributor will in the future want to sponsor a Humboldt Microcontrollers Group project to design and build a modified version of Steve Salzmans vehicle, with upgrades that allow it to parallel park itself as well as generate and track all sorts of vehicle operation data. That will be a fun project!

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why so serious

So my blog today starts off in Burger King.

A black guy hit on Kelly and tried to rape her so I had to go all lesbian and save her.

stupid black people.

So we saw all these wet floor signs and this is what we thought of

THIS IS SPARTA

except for one that looked like a slipping hooker. Dunno what one would put on that haha.

So Im moving back into my old room because my mom is a loser. Whatever. Im gonna push my two beds together and move my couch and have a P.I.M.P room

People
In
My
Place

XD

So this lady is over...dunno what she is to me...aunt? cousin? Not sure

Anyway this morning she was like "Why are you so serious all the time? Do you ever smile?"

Then I ROFLED

well not really cause I was outside and it was hot XD

but yep going to the football game to watch some fail

byeeee

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lets go home so I can poop

says Thim.

So thats how I got to Thims house...cause she had to poop lol. I mean she missed class so she could come home and poop.

so were thinking of something to do. Think Im just gonna google it.

wow so Thim just sniffed soap

XD

Anyway I was playing WoW and I told some dude to shut up and danced with him and he gave me money. Does that make me a prostitute?

Or maybe its cause I run around in panties =]

So in class today my teacher was talking about how Dr. Phil sucks. Apparently her friend went on there for marital problems and they tricked them and staged the show to make her look like a money hungry jerk and him look like a fat slob. Like they filmed at a hotel in Cancun and claimed it was their house.

WTF Dr. Phil!

Ok so I googled what should we do today and it took me to the church of the flying spaghetti monster...lol

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