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I hope the event chairs don't feel like I'm stepping on their toes, since I didn't clear this with them first, but this thought just occured to me.
More and more AXers are getting interested in data logging as a possible next step in aiding their learning curve, and it's getting to be nearly universal for national level AXers to use some sort of data logging. We have been using data logging since our first GEEZ cube in 2001. The GEEZ cube with it's 3 axis accellerometers was sophisticated for it's day, but analizing the data with the software IMHO was crude and cumbersome at best. The inventor lost interest in AX and never further developed the software.
Thanks in part to GPS direction finders getting more and more popular with the masses the costs of GPS positioning tech and equipment has dropped dramatically in recent years. This along with inexpensive, compact, and reliable storage media has now produced several accellerometer/gps based data recorders aimed at the amateur racer in the price range of a set of R compounds.
There is still a lot of mistique, misunderstanding, and technophobia about these devices, their use and usefulness. Evolution teaches with them and about them in their Extreme School, but that might be putting the cart before the horse for someone considering adding a recorder to their vehicle.
I'd like to offer a 1/2 hr - 45min introduction to data recording discussion/demo for anyone who is considering or has recently added a data recorder.
This might be held at the lunch break depending on if the event chairs have something planned for that time or not, or immediately after the end of the event. I can do it in my trailer so as to not interrupt anything/anyone else.
Please indicate if you would attend especially if held at the end of the event, your level of interest (just curious, buying one soon, already have one), so I can plan on bringing my laptop and some recent data files.
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