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How should my runners run??

lorrainbow
lorrainbow over 2 years ago

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: 

And runner 1 takes it!!
This project uses an @arduino WiFi to download @Strava data from 4 friends. It moves them along a track depending on how far they've run. I need to seal the box and decorate the track before it's ready for @E14Community #element14presents pic.twitter.com/koLAfJV7eM

— Lorraine Underwood (@LMcUnderwood) May 6, 2023

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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    dougw over 2 years ago

    Very nice looking machine so far - smooth.

    I like option 2 - all run together to their current totals, even if they are different. This allows the whole race to be re-run to the latest data every time you reset and it will always look like a race.

    If you have advancement grid lines on the track, you can shoot the video from an angle so all runners are visible even when running neck-a-neck, and you would still be able to tell relative position.

    Will real runners be able to log in to the camera and reset/rerun the race?

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    dougw over 2 years ago

    Very nice looking machine so far - smooth.

    I like option 2 - all run together to their current totals, even if they are different. This allows the whole race to be re-run to the latest data every time you reset and it will always look like a race.

    If you have advancement grid lines on the track, you can shoot the video from an angle so all runners are visible even when running neck-a-neck, and you would still be able to tell relative position.

    Will real runners be able to log in to the camera and reset/rerun the race?

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