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How should my runners run??

lorrainbow

My next element14 presents video uses an arduino to move runners along a track, according to their strava data. The first runner to reach 100km wins!

There's a short video on my twitter: 

The questions I have for my lovely element14 community is how should I move the runners?

At the moment they're running all of their kilometres at once, one at a time. e.g. runner1 runs their total 50km, runner2 runs their total 75km, etc.

We could make them all run at once. 

We could make them run each run at a time, e.g. runner1 runs their first run 5km, runner2 runs their first run 10km and so on and then loop back to runner1 and their 2nd run. OR finally all runners run run1, then all runners run run2, etc. 

EDIT: To clarify, it's not a live track. There's a button and when it's pressed all the runners reverse to the start line then start running. Otherwise I'd miss my runner moving!

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  • I think it depends on how you are planning on displaying this ?

    I would have expected for the runners to advance as their data is updated on Strava.

    However you would rarely see any animation that way just who is currently in the lead the next time you looked.

    But you could have a user button that does an action replay whereby the runners are temporarily reset back to the start line and it replays the activity in the order that it happened,  from zero to the current position.

  • in reply to beacon_dave

    Exactly how I plan to do it, have a reset to start line. I've updated the post to clarify

  • in reply to lorrainbow

    I think an option to replay in sequence of actual activity then.

    Runner 1 might complete 3 runs before runner 2 completes their first run. So replay would show:

    • Runner 1, Run 1
    • Runner 1, Run 2
    • Runner 1, Run 3
    • Runner 2, Run 1
    • Runner 1, Run 4
    • Runner 2, Run 2

    with a slight pause between them to indicate that Runner 1 did three runs before Runner 2 did their first run.

    If runners 3 and 4 go out for a run together, then they should replay together.

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  • in reply to lorrainbow

    I think an option to replay in sequence of actual activity then.

    Runner 1 might complete 3 runs before runner 2 completes their first run. So replay would show:

    • Runner 1, Run 1
    • Runner 1, Run 2
    • Runner 1, Run 3
    • Runner 2, Run 1
    • Runner 1, Run 4
    • Runner 2, Run 2

    with a slight pause between them to indicate that Runner 1 did three runs before Runner 2 did their first run.

    If runners 3 and 4 go out for a run together, then they should replay together.

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