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Topic: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Hey Lemons racers!

We put together this little lap timing app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It's tailored to the Lemons format, and can simplify your paperwork a lot. We thought we'd throw it up for free, in case anyone else wants it.

It tracks all your drivers, their lap times, flags, penalties, etc. It also has the ability to upload your data to a web server in real time, so you can see the data in your pit area on a laptop or cell phone.

The server upload feature requires you to have your own web server and know how to set it up, but full instructions are at the link below.

http://www.quinndunki.com/OGOL/BTimer

If you get your server set up, you can get data like this in your pit during the race:

http://www.quinndunki.com/screenshots/BTeamRaceData.jpg

Enjoy!

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

That's hella cool. Almost cool enough to make me wish I had an iphone. Almost. But iphones are still uberghey.

But thanks for sharing, you guys rock.

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

+1 for the Jesus Phone...

Ronman just became our offical Timer...


...and I was gonna buy one of those dual stopwatch clipboards cause they look cool... don't know how to use it... but it looks hella cool...

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Are you going to port it to Android?

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I wish they had that for droid phone sad

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

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Clearly this is WAY above my level of expertise....but I am VERY interested in this app & how to setup a laptop in the pits to use it....please email me with more details

icemang17@aol.com

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

MurileeMartin wrote:

Are you going to port it to Android?

No plans to do that at the moment, I'm afraid. I'm the author of it, and I don't do any Android development.

Most of the work was on the back-end though, so if someone wants to write an Android front-end, they're welcome to my SQL and PHP server code. In fact, it's all posted on the website (see first link in my original post)

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icemang17 wrote:

B team
Clearly this is WAY above my level of expertise....but I am VERY interested in this app & how to setup a laptop in the pits to use it....please email me with more details

icemang17@aol.com

I would recommend reading through this section of the website:
http://www.quinndunki.com/OGOL/BTimer_Setup.html

Everyone's server is a little different, and I can't offer tech support for this (this system is free, after all smile ), but if you take the information above to your web administrator, ISP provider, or hosting service, they should be able to set you up.

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Bonedriver wrote:

+1 for the Jesus Phone...

Ronman just became our offical Timer...

I don't think so, Tim.

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Rock on buddy.  Every nerd on my team just spilled their mountain dew on the keyboard.

+1 for Lemons geeks

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craznoe wrote:

Rock on buddy.  Every nerd on my team just spilled their mountain dew on the keyboard.

+1 for Lemons geeks

I sure hope that's Mountain Dew....

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craznoe wrote:

+1 for Lemons geeks

I can think of at least a dozen California Lemons teams made up almost entirely of software engineers. Hmmm... we should come up with a special "find the memory leak" penalty for them- I have access to some truly terrible C++ code, with all the comments in Turkish. Yes, Turkish. No, wait, even better: Objective C, with no comments whatsoever, thanks to a geek who felt that commenting code makes you weak!

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MurileeMartin wrote:
craznoe wrote:

+1 for Lemons geeks

I can think of at least a dozen California Lemons teams made up almost entirely of software engineers. Hmmm... we should come up with a special "find the memory leak" penalty for them- I have access to some truly terrible C++ code, with all the comments in Turkish. Yes, Turkish. No, wait, even better: Objective C, with no comments whatsoever, thanks to a geek who felt that commenting code makes you weak!

I feel that pain. I have a stack of code commented thinly in Japanese, but haven't found a text editor that will render it properly, so it's gibberish even I could read Japanese which I can't. </exhale>

Our team is a nerd soup- we have a duo of IT geeks, an antenna dish dork, a pair of pixel pushers, and a real rocket scientist.

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BTeam_Blondie wrote:
MurileeMartin wrote:

Are you going to port it to Android?

No plans to do that at the moment, I'm afraid. I'm the author of it, and I don't do any Android development.

For Android, see Trackmaster: http://trackmaster.trackaroo.com/welcome
It can post to twitter.

I'd assume it would be easy for the developer to get it to post the data elsewhere, and I know people who claim that he's very responsive.

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BTeam_Blondie wrote:
craznoe wrote:

Rock on buddy.  Every nerd on my team just spilled their mountain dew on the keyboard.

+1 for Lemons geeks

I sure hope that's Mountain Dew....

Me too.... :shudder:

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Oh yeah, pad these schmos' IRA.

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

This is really cool. Any plans to sync it with the iPhone's internal GPS so that it would automatically keep the times if the phone is mounted in the car?

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Mulry wrote:

This is really cool. Any plans to sync it with the iPhone's internal GPS so that it would automatically keep the times if the phone is mounted in the car?

I'm sure it's possible but the way I drive my iPhone will have a much longer life outside the Lemons car!

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

MurileeMartin wrote:

Are you going to port it to Android?

WTF?! I figured you'd be a iPhone guy... hrmmm....

laz wrote:
BTeam_Blondie wrote:
MurileeMartin wrote:

Are you going to port it to Android?

No plans to do that at the moment, I'm afraid. I'm the author of it, and I don't do any Android development.

For Android, see Trackmaster: http://trackmaster.trackaroo.com/welcome
It can post to twitter.

I'd assume it would be easy for the developer to get it to post the data elsewhere, and I know people who claim that he's very responsive.

Bought it... trying it out next event.

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Mulry wrote:

This is really cool. Any plans to sync it with the iPhone's internal GPS so that it would automatically keep the times if the phone is mounted in the car?

That might be possible, but at first glance I don't think that would work very well. While working on another GPS-related application for the iPhone, I learned that the GPS in it is very low power, low frequency, and low-precision. I have doubts it's sufficient for really accurate lap timings. Some sort of dock-connection to an AIM-style receiver would be feasible though.

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Oh yeah, pad these schmos' IRA.

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But! I was going to buy that ivory backscratcher... Grrr...

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BTeam_Blondie wrote:
Mulry wrote:

This is really cool. Any plans to sync it with the iPhone's internal GPS so that it would automatically keep the times if the phone is mounted in the car?

That might be possible, but at first glance I don't think that would work very well. While working on another GPS-related application for the iPhone, I learned that the GPS in it is very low power, low frequency, and low-precision. I have doubts it's sufficient for really accurate lap timings. Some sort of dock-connection to an AIM-style receiver would be feasible though.

What about using BTimer with one of these to get better GPS data? It's a GPS receiver that outputs the data via WiFi and it's only $99 bucks.

http://www.g-fi.com/

You could use a Sprint Overdrive 3g/4g wifi hotspot fo the same thing, but those are overkill (and overpriced) for this application.

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Re: Lap Timer for your iPhone, courtesy of The B-Team

Mulry wrote:
BTeam_Blondie wrote:
Mulry wrote:

This is really cool. Any plans to sync it with the iPhone's internal GPS so that it would automatically keep the times if the phone is mounted in the car?

That might be possible, but at first glance I don't think that would work very well. While working on another GPS-related application for the iPhone, I learned that the GPS in it is very low power, low frequency, and low-precision. I have doubts it's sufficient for really accurate lap timings. Some sort of dock-connection to an AIM-style receiver would be feasible though.

What about using BTimer with one of these to get better GPS data? It's a GPS receiver that outputs the data via WiFi and it's only $99 bucks.

http://www.g-fi.com/

You could use a Sprint Overdrive 3g/4g wifi hotspot fo the same thing, but those are overkill (and overpriced) for this application.

That's a cool toy! Maybe version 2.0. For now, we just wanted to ease the paperwork for our poor (hot Asian) radio operator.

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I gotta send a huge thank you to the "B Team".  My team "The UNDERGROUND" has soo much internal rivalry about who is the fastest pilot of our car it is ridiculous.  The smack talk amongst ourselves is insane.  Not until you designed this software has there been a way for us to get to the bottom of this and find out who our fastest guy actually is.

Thank you for helping us get some closure.  If ya ever need anything please stop by our pit.

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BTeam_Blondie wrote:

That's a cool toy! Maybe version 2.0. For now, we just wanted to ease the paperwork for our poor (hot Asian) radio operator.

Totally! We can't wait to use v1 at Infineon next week. Cheers and thanks for the cool tool!

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