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Rideeye Cycling 'black box'


Rob's picture

By Rob - Posted on 12 September 2013

Given other discussions going on around here, this could be a timely project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rideye/ridey...

What makes this interesting is that it has claimed 12 hour battery life, and records a 1 hour continuous loop which is saved at the press of a button or if the unit detects a crash.

Little heavy at 300g, but it's built to survive a crash and the price is good.

Any backers?

hawkeye's picture

Haven't checked the link but it would need to capture forward and rearward video. The lack of rear facing video was the excuse given by the Queensland plod for ignoring Craig Cowled's footage.

I run cams facing both directions. Have been lazy with fitting the rear one of late. It's going back on next week.

Rob's picture

I actually think someone should make a box that sits in the centre of your helmet and has 4 sensors attached to it via wires.

The actual sensor/lens part of these cameras is tiny. Batteries are the biggest part.

If you had 4 lens/sensor 'arms' as I propose one could capture full 360 degree video (you'd drop the frame rate a little to handle this). With 120 degree lenses you could mange with 3 of course, but a bit more overlap couldn't hurt.

The unit wouldn't have to do the fancy merging of images from each sensor, this could be done later if required.

Point is - you'd then only have 1 box (with the arms) on your helmet which would have to be preferably to 2 external cameras.

I can see a day where helmets come with 4 holes and mounts built into them for this kind of thing.

P.S. If you think I'm talking sci-fi here, similar technology already exists. See here:

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/133157879...

philberesford's picture

I already run a big Ayup battery, if it has such a low power consumption why not piggyback on that and still have light too eh?

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