Meet Precious – the bike with a brain
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry in Technology
Right now – an intelligent bicycle is being ridden across America [from coast to coast] to raise money and awareness for the Livestrong Foundation.
Precious [the name of the bike] is a highly technical, sensor-laden, Tweet emitting machine that you can follow in real time here.
Hello my Precious
The company that built the bike have created a device that takes readings from various sensors, including temperature, humidity, grade, speed, pedal rotation, direction and GPS, and sends the results via text to the company’s servers, passing through the Twitter API along the way to parse the text messages.
The system spits out a tweet automatically, but McCrae [the bike's human rider] can also reach out to followers with the push of a button on her handlebars. [via]
Such a radical idea. We’ll be keeping track of Precious for sure. Love the way the project layers all the tech to bring the experience of riding across America to a web audience. Armchair travel at its best.
