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Too true about the Velcomputer SDK. They want have to worry about being rushed off there feet at $999. I am not clear what the hardware will cost but it’s a none starter to have an SDK costing more than the hardware. Having worked in a developer relations 15 years ago what you had to do was give your hardware away to people that could do good stuff with it. Then have a good SDK with good examples that make getting baseline support trivial. You also need to take supporting the developers seriously, dedicated contact methods idealy directly to the people responsible for the SDK. You also need to have co-marketing oportunities etc.
They should give it away to those who might do big things with it, but I’m not sure there are many of those. By that I mean established players you’d expect to put this device to good use where a free SDK offering is more like promotional material.
I think its fine to charge the general public for the end user hardware and maybe add on a small fee if they want the sdk too but $999 is too high. Seems like the value of this device is because it is cheap
for o-sync, here is the link to see what changed: link to o-synce.com
As to the Ant+ simulator, seems very cool. The issue I have with Ant is why have code like this that seems to handle Ant+ so well while the demo source code that have doesn’t? I understand that they want the sample to be as simple as possible, but why not have a more advanced demo? And why is it that the Ant+ profiles are so well defined but interpreting the packets is basically up to the developer? Seems to me like they would want to share the code behind the simulator and maybe have a framework (user generated or from the Ant+ folks) to make it easier to just have the data from Ant in their application and not worry so much how to implement Ant.
I’m torn on Bikespike. As a security device it seems pretty easy to work around so not really sure what i’d use it for when I already have an Edge bike computer.
Many problems with the safer (for cyclists) truck design, but first and foremost, where are the engine and transmission?
Outside the box thinking is great, provided you start with reality.
Can’t really tell but looks like the load sits higher which would allow it to be behind the driver extending under the load