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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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  • Are you going to make the design modular such that it is easily scalable ?

    You may have 4 runners to start with but say a couple more runners want to join in.

    Can you remove a side, slot in two additional track modules, daisy chain them onto the existing bus, then replace the side; so as to now have a 6 runner simulation ?

    Could be fun for STEM type activities where each student gets to build their own track section and then they are combined together into a larger project. 

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  • Are you going to make the design modular such that it is easily scalable ?

    You may have 4 runners to start with but say a couple more runners want to join in.

    Can you remove a side, slot in two additional track modules, daisy chain them onto the existing bus, then replace the side; so as to now have a 6 runner simulation ?

    Could be fun for STEM type activities where each student gets to build their own track section and then they are combined together into a larger project. 

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