Hi Indiegogo backers! A quick update on the production status for RaceCapture/Pro. We have 28 RaceCapture/Pro boards assembled, reworked and awaiting functional testing before they can be installed into their sexy red enclosures. All Decal'd up! We’ve been putting in some serious hours wrapping up the last bit of work so you can have something truly useful…
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RaceCapture/Pro – for Data Junkies
It’s been a busy month and a half for our team! We’re shooting for our initial production of 25 RaceCapture/Pro Data Junkie Perks by the end of this month- which is … 10 days away! Here’s a bit on where we currently stand: Production Status We are flush with inventory to build all of the…
Race Capture Pro Launched on Indiegogo!
We Did it! Presenting- Race Capture Pro: Open Source Data Acquisition, control and real time telemetry. Thank you for supporting our indiegogo project!
Kickstarter or Indiegogo?
Its finally happening! But which one? As we wind up to launch Race Capture Pro, our Open Source Data Acquisition and Control System, I stand on top of over 2 years of work – Including noteworthy bits like piles of un-assembled, flawed boards representing 6 hardware revisions, thousands upon thousands of lines of firmware and…
Help us Out – we need your media!
Help us out- we need your video clips and photos! We’re preparing a [b]special[/b] introduction video for our upcoming Data Acquisition System, RaceCapture Pro, and we need some inspirational video clips and images to include in our video! In car racing video, outside shots, spins, tire smoke, photos of your car and engines, dashboards, you…
Megajolt / __!!!__
Help us name the new version of Megajolt! First There was Megajolt Lite Jr. – everything a Marketing expert would say not to do: use the word Lite or Jr. in a name. Whoops! What did we know at the time? So, when we revised the design slightly, we re-cast it as Megajolt/E, E for…
Do you Autocross?
We’re very pleased to announce… The Northwest Region SCCA 2012 Solo Championship Series … that’s right, we’re now the title sponsor of the very racing series that first inspired our interest in motorsports and led directly to the creation of Autsport Labs! We couldn’t imagine a more perfect fit! Big thanks to everyone who has…
RaceCapture/Pro little helper boards
Here’s a quick post to whet your appetite for RaceCapture/Pro. Actually, let’s be honest- it’s a filler post as we work on a bigger piece talking about real-time Race Car Telemetry. Yet, still cool! Here’s what we have cooking: So what do we have here? From top left, clockwise: JTAG Adapter: A JTag debugging /…
RaceCapture/Pro – hardware testing is painful
Oh, complexity When you’ve designed something with this many features- the demons of complexity come home to roost. And, when it comes to comprehensive testing it’s especially painful. Here’s a naked yet fully tested – manually tested – RaceCapture/Pro board with GPS and accelerometer modules installed. When I finished the spreadsheet identifying over 100 individual…
RaceCapture/Pro Testing
Here is a set of RaceCapture/Pro boards, currently under test. We just verified that all four hand-assembled accelerometer modules actually work! (small boards in green) Soldering fine pitch components is so often a sketchy exercise so I’m always a bit stunned when they come to life. Once they pass test they’ll be assembled in enclosures…