velothon - Summary

This group is not part of the GNU Project.

This project aims at developing a challenge game for events such as Telethon or inter-village games. Each village or neighborhood is a team. A team is composed of bikers and sponsors. Sponsors pay for bikers to pedal. The winner at the end of the event is the team that covered the longest distance and the money earned from the sponsors is of course to the benefit of the event (e.g. Telethon).

Tools developed for this project are:

• A electronic device with capters that is plugged on home-trainer bicycles (we use home made bicycle counters in order to be able to connect them to a computer for only a few euros)

• A software to run on the capter device (we use a Arduino board to fetch the capters data and send it to a computer through the serial/USB link)

• A software to handle information received from the capter device and display it to the participants of the event (on a giant video projector screen) and to control the game mechanisms, such as managing teams, bikers and sponsors, starting counters, and so on.

Registration Date: Sun 28 Sep 2008 05:10:12 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta