{"id":1077,"date":"2012-12-15T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2012-12-16T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T14:04:26","slug":"exercise-machines-and-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Exercise machines and Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of exercise machines &#8211; mainly treadmills and some exercise bicycles, that interface with Google Maps to make exercise more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>A cheap DIY solution is to use a reed relay closed by a magnet to\u00a0operable\u00a0the up arrow on a keyboard. A lot cheaper, but is does not have the feedback to\u00a0change\u00a0the treadmill angle or exercise\u00a0cycle resistance with the gradient.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these devices are behemoths\u00a0and far to large for the average lounge room. Some have built in\u00a0computers\u00a0which would be\u00a0dinosaurs\u00a0well before the\u00a0service\u00a0life of the exercise machine.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem obvious to standardise on a short\u00a0range\u00a0radio\u00a0link such as WiFi or Bluetooth to interact with a tablet, laptop \u00a0or phone (Apple\u00a0and Android seem to the the main flavours). The machine would be cheap and \u00a0just have the basic controls and the user would use their device to add the extras, data logging and analysis. An obvious data channel would be heart rate from a heart rate belt (I have reverse engineered one with a 10 mH coil), but it should be possible to add other channels and cheap sensors like oxygen sensors (?oximeters) become available.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before this becomes a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of exercise machines &#8211; mainly treadmills and some exercise bicycles, that interface with Google Maps to make exercise more interesting. A cheap DIY solution is to use a reed relay closed by a magnet to\u00a0operable\u00a0the up arrow on a keyboard. 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