goldark317

Hi guys, a friend of mine and I are trying to create a bracelet with some sensors that allows people to control other devices with their finger movements

I got different doubts

Do you think can be useful for Cycling sport? Maybe for keep in touch with music or stopwatch?

In case it does, how would you realize? a whole bracelet or just a module that can be put under the watchband?


Color? material?

If you have any tips they are welcome!!

thank you very much guys hope you can help me to sort it out!

qclabrat

worth exploring, but I personally don't like gadgets with riding, at most I have a cyclocomputer, the Di2 stuff really hasn't gone mainstream
also listen to music is not recommended due to safety, I prefer to enjoy the outdoors when I am outside. just my 2cents

knobster

Kinda of like this but as a bracelet? Bike Computer for iPhone ? Wahoo Fitness RFLKT

I guess it might be useful. Would be good for running. You'd want something made of rubber and multi-color along with being waterproof. Wouldn't be too difficult really as it's just a head unit for the iPhone and uses bluetooth.

knobster

I use to agree with this until a runner friend of mine turned me on to these: New SSPS-1 iPod and MP3 Speaker Headphones, Biking and Running Safety Outdoors

I can hear the traffic just fine and can enjoy music as well. Low volume of course.

goldark317

Does any of you ever used a GoPro Camera? the thing is that instead of bringing the hand away from the handlebar in order to click a button or use the touchscreen, you can just flick your finger and change the music or start and stop a video recording and take a photo.
what do you think?

tagaproject6

How will the bracelet differentiate the finger movements from gear shifting, grabbing a water bottle, scratching, picking, waving, etc.?

goldark317

Gear shifting is not a problem, the algorithm is extremely robust and the sensors redundant. The gesture control activation is made by slightly flexing the wrist.
of course grabbing things, scratching and waving are not the finger gestures that you use for calibrating and will be classified as noise

qclabrat

still seems too complicate than freeing up one hand to push a button, if i must have 2 hands on my bars, I'm probably not concerned about changing a channel, volume or pressing play

wphamilton

I like it. I'm not sure that strictly cycling specific applications would be useful, but things that you could do with it while also cycling is where I'd see some utility.

Expect almost universal pushback on the idea and do it anyway if you have the resources and inclination. I was talking to a technologist just yesterday imagining wearable tech with gesture control and incorporating convenient NFC and scanning, and he was somewhat dismissive. And he was wearing a Pebble! Until demonstrated, people won't see the point.

goldark317

Do you guys use any electronic device while riding?

Leebo

No electronic device while riding. Maybe look at my bike odometer once in a while. My music is in the trees, the birds, and the wheels.

knobster

I actually use that Wahoo device I linked. It works quite well. But I typically only worry about music when I'm riding a route I've ridden a million times.

tagaproject6

Do you ride a bike? Do you realize how much wrist movements are involved when your hands are on the handlebars? Not so much with a unicycle.

Machka 

Not a lot of them ... no.

I have a small computer to tell me speed and distance.

If I decide to wear a HRM, the watch tells me what I need to know.

And I might take photos once in a while, but mostly when I'm stopped.

It's all quite easy to manage.

Machka 

Do you ride a bicycle? Do you know that it is advisable to move your hands quite frequently?

This bracelet of yours ... if I move my hands from the top of the bars to the hoods and then to the drops and back to the hoods, and touch the shifters to shift or think about shifting and touch the brakes to brake or think about breaking, etc. etc etc. ... how would that affect the adjustments to other things? Would I be turning my lights on and off, turning my music (if I listened to music) on and off?

qclabrat

During a ride today in the back road roads could hear the river and roosters crowing, then
an unleashed dog, luckily was already pedaling fast, not listening to music or putsing with my devices.

QUOTE=Leebo;17184929]No electronic device while riding. Maybe look at my bike odometer once in a while. My music is in the trees, the birds, and the wheels.[/QUOTE]

goldark317

I know about the wrist movements, that's why we are testing the bracelet so hardly. At the end it will enables you to do a few functions that could be useful, for example music and photo. But the things that I am saying is, Could it be possible that we don't use that much electronic while riding just because we cannot get access to it? And in case I provide this easy control, what would you think can be possible doing in the future?

Machka 

Many of us like cycling because it takes us away from electronics.

goldark317

We dont want for sure taking you back in the eletronics , but just know if there's a spot for us to help you about training and stuff