I'm Developing Turbo Trainer Software!

Spooned
Spooned Posts: 4
edited February 2013 in Training, fitness and health
Hello everyone,

For quite a while I've taken a lot from this site and given little in return and so I thought that this could be something I could give back to the community.

It is still in its absolute infancy and I'm looking for ideas about what people might want included. So far you can define your own workout and it will give you the activity, time remaining and expected cadence and HR. I also have a Garmin Ant+ stick on the way and hope to be able to include data collected in real time on the screen too.

Pictures so far:

Turbo_Trainer.jpg
Cadence.jpg

Let me know what you want :D
Cheers
Leo

Comments

  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    A flux capacitor
  • Herbsman
    Herbsman Posts: 2,029
    Add a function to hide the timer, so that I can't keep looking to see how much suffering I have left.
    CAPTAIN BUCKFAST'S CYCLING TIPS - GUARANTEED TO WORK! 1 OUT OF 10 RACING CYCLISTS AGREE!
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    I'd stick with Golden Cheetah if I were you and save your energy for riding rather than programming.
  • twotyred
    twotyred Posts: 822
    None of the current software is available as an Android tablet app so doing that would give you a USP.
  • Spooned
    Spooned Posts: 4
    ShutUpLegs wrote:
    A flux capacitor
    Thanks for the idea but don't worry, I won't be generating 1.21GW on the turbo any time soon :)
    Herbsman wrote:
    Add a function to hide the timer, so that I can't keep looking to see how much suffering I have left.
    You got it!
    GiantMike wrote:
    I'd stick with Golden Cheetah if I were you and save your energy for riding rather than programming.
    Wow that is quite a fully featured bit of software, never heard of it before!
    twotyred wrote:
    None of the current software is available as an Android tablet app so doing that would give you a USP.
    Great idea, thanks :) I'll have a look at feasibility
  • Flexisurfer
    Flexisurfer Posts: 249
    I've recently been using Sufferfest and thought I could do something similar with the basis being video. I have a small digital sports camera that I use when kitesurfing, I would fit this to the bike and record rides, then add this to windows movie maker and add the timing and music over the top. Not sure if it will work but I'm gonna give it a go, so I would say for yours video has to go on there.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    Spooned wrote:
    GiantMike wrote:
    I'd stick with Golden Cheetah if I were you and save your energy for riding rather than programming.

    Wow that is quite a fully featured bit of software, never heard of it before!

    It's also free and brilliant, well developed and has been continually upgraded. Even if I could run it on a tablet I wouldn't because I wouldn't want to run sweaty salty fingers all over a tablet screen. A cheap mouse is so much better.

    [dragons' den mode] I'm out! [/dragons' den mode] but very good luck

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