Use the Rasp Pi to log data from bicycles and motorcyles
Every year, students majoring in automotive engineering at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria, take on an interdisciplinary project. In 2015, the task of three teams of students was to chart various information during travel by bicycle, including turning radius, speed, acceleration, and GPS data. Each team of three worked alone: One member took care of the hardware and set up the computer, a second member wrote the software, and the third member worked on the software needed to analyze the data.
Self-Built
A mandatory project requirement for each team was to use a Raspberry Pi as the basis for analyzing sensor signals and storing measurements. All of the teams were therefore confronted with the challenge of how to mount a Pi on a bicycle so that it would remain stable.
Two groups used a bicycle in developing a prototype (Figure 1), whereas the third group used a somewhat more dynamic interpretation of the word bicycle and decided to use a BMW S1000RR motorcycle (Figure 2). One of the biggest challenges for this group was to find enough space for the Raspberry Pi, all of the sensors, and the power supply (Figure 3).
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