After hearing about the canfield brothers video contest, I have been thinking of building a microcontroller based device to record how well suspension systems absorb impacts using accelerometers. I was thinking of attaching one accelerometer to the bike seat and the other on the rear triangle close to where you bolt the wheel on. If you compare the two values, that should give some valueable feedback... right?
What G-forces would I expect to see? Different accelerometers have different sensitivities so I would need to know that before even starting to assemble something. Is there something better that I could measure too? My background is software so other than applied physics (falling down stairs) I get lost.
Hmm.. this might be nice for custom tuning suspension setups, eh?
What G-forces would I expect to see? Different accelerometers have different sensitivities so I would need to know that before even starting to assemble something. Is there something better that I could measure too? My background is software so other than applied physics (falling down stairs) I get lost.
Hmm.. this might be nice for custom tuning suspension setups, eh?
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