I hooked up the Acer One to a projector I have in my, yet to be completed, home theater room. I plan to clean the room out this weekend and set up the two sets of roller in there and do some real testing with my Swobo on a roller. Here is a quick video running Goldsprints FX in the OpenSprints test mode.
I am not too happy with the way the Acer One netbook works when another VGA device is added on to it. I couldn’t get it to have two different screen. It would only do a mirror. Is anyone else using an Acer One for their sprints? What are you experiencing with a projector hooked up to it? Can you run two independent display? If so, what is the resolution of each display?
I have updated the Goldsprints FX download page. It now has links to the necessary plugins and applications to run GFX. But GFX is not net available for download.
You can get a jump on the beta by installing Flash, AIR and Serproxy now. This will also give you some time to get Serproxy running and edit the necessary CFG file that Serproxy needs to communicate with Flash. Visit the downloads page for more details.
Also, don’t forget to answer my bike color poll if you have not done so already.
After picking up the CycleOps rollers from Rassy’s today I assembled them without much difficulty. None really. I just had to take the rollers out of the box, unfold them, move the front roller all the way forward, mount the fork stand, take the front wheel off my Swobo Sanchez and mount the bike to the rollers and swapped out my clip-in for some cages. A final adjustment of the fork stand and I was rolling. Pun intended!
After a few spins I took the bike off and disassembled the roller frame. I had to remove the rear roller and mount my rare earth magnet to the plastic end for the drum. I used small screw and it mounted with out issue. I removed the rubber band off the drums since I don’t need when using the fork stand. I put the roller frame back together. Final task was to attach the OpenSprints hall sensor to the frame so it could pick up the passing of the rare earth magnet. I used one of my wife’s elastic hair things as a temporary way to keep the sensor from moving.
Here are to quick screen shots of post race results from my testing tonight. I did a few solo races to tests everything out. I have some work to do on the rollers to get into sprinting shape! My Swobo is running 38/16 so I will probably go 38/18 if I have to use this bike for races. But I am hoping a sponsor to give up some frames or full bikes when the race time comes.
All that is left now are a few tweaks to the interface of Goldsprints FX and I can release it as beta. I already have about 10 people/groups wanting to test the application. East coast, West coast and as far away a Italy are waiting on the beta. I can’t wait to see the bugs they find! If you would like to sign up for the beta see the previous post for instructions. You will also need to fill out this
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I ordered my roller on Monday from Rassy’s. Getting my hands on the rollers is the final part that will allow me to get a small group of people beta testing Goldsprint FX. Assuming my rollers coming in by Thursday I will be able to give Goldsprints FX a good testing this weekend. If all works out well then I don’t see any reason that I can’t start to get Goldsprintn FX is the hands of a few people that would like to help beta test. Right now I have a very high tech testing system since I don’t have my own rollers. You can see a photo of this setup in the post titled High Tech Training Roller Simulator. But don’t laugh it actually works pretty good with top speeds hitting around 90 km/h.
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