Escapism Pedal Through Google Streetview in the Science Gallery Dublin

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My Escapism Bike project I did as a small part of my MSc in Interactive Media, Full write up on how it works and what is does here: http://lettesblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/escapism-pedal-through-google-stre...

Escapism is a simple project that allows you to pedal through Google Streetview from the comfort of your own home, with other potential applications.




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  • It's a great idea. But it's too bad that the image stops. The ones who are doing this, need to do something or talk with google maps, to avoid that the image stop and stop. And if you could turn left or right in the bycicle, that would be good too, but for that I guess you have to make a special byke for the game.

  • @fernator5 thanks for checking it out :) you can turn in any direction using a nintendo wii remote, im also going to put buttons on the handle bars so you can do it from there too :)

    The reason for the image stopping is Google Maps is really only a slide show of images, no matter how fast your wifi connection is there will always be problems, but there is no problem hooking this up with a little extra arduino code to hook it up to prerecorded time coded video landscapes and also games :) :)

  • @fernator5 im still working on it so ill continue to document its progress on here :) I have lots of little vids of how I got this far in my channel :)

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  • bad fps

  • Great idea! I'm going to make my girlfriend cycle around the US, just for starters.

  • 0.75FPS.

  • Thanks for the help! I am a Triathlete and I am sick of riding inside already and still have 3 months of weather to keep me inside. I wonder if you could use a wireless cadance sensor I have for my Garmin 305 watch. I am not a Tech guy at all so I am lost on how to do this but I want to do it!

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