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iPhone Dynolicious

Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:56 pm
by blenz
http://www.dynolicious.com/ I just stumbled across this today and I'm curious of what everyone thinks. Could this program be used effectively as a tool to tune timing on the street? Has anyone had the chance to fool around with it yet? Here is a short video that compares results on the dyno and at the track to the numbers from the dynolicious software as well as a G-Tech accelerometer: http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-08/08 ... G-Tech.htm

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:59 am
by zex_cool
now, if they only had the iphone for tmobile...

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:09 am
by HRTuning
Hacked iPhones work fine for T-Mobile.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:14 am
by zex_cool
friend of mine had one when they first came out. he had ton of problems with it. it got relocked 2 times before he gave up on it. you can use the ipot touch too, but 299 for the base model. :?

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:21 am
by Orthello
Has anyone tried to play with the Wii controlers (Wiimote) to get an accelerometer? See at MSDN (Coding4Fun) And the Wiimote itself is relatively cheap to buy.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:53 am
by HRTuning
zex_cool wrote:friend of mine had one when they first came out. he had ton of problems with it. it got relocked 2 times before he gave up on it. you can use the ipot touch too, but 299 for the base model. :?
When they first came out isn't much of a basis for unlocking phones because they just came out. They've come a long ways and there are plenty of people using unlocked ones now.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:19 pm
by Civicman86
I'd like to see some more results of this product from other people. I'm still a little skeptical.

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:11 pm
by JaredKaragen
Wait... Wiimote... Bluetooth... Laptop... This could work... lol

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:50 am
by Orthello
JaredKaragen wrote:Wait... Wiimote... Bluetooth... Laptop... This could work... lol
Would it work with the BlueTooth of my cell phone? (HTC TyTn2 with WM6) It's so tempting to start playing with that!!! :D Wiimote is able to measure along 2 axis. So it's ideal for acceleration, braking and cornering. But... I have a VSS converter to finish ;)

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:00 pm
by makafeli
u can use racechrono: http://www.racechrono.com/ its a free program like dynolicious, only its for a symbian phones, i use it and it worked great...

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:31 pm
by Orthello
But that uses GPS which is WAY to inaccurate. GPS only updates once a second. So when you go from 0 to 100km/h in 10 seconds, it can also be 11 seconds or 9 seconds. Error: 10%

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:07 pm
by JaredKaragen
unless your paying big bux for a GPS your only accurate within 30Ft or so; If you buy the wholy moly expensive equipment like our survey equipment, you can get accurate within .005\" but that's only at a fixed location when the GPS has enough time to lock into it's position that precisely.

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:16 am
by Orthello
JaredKaragen wrote: but that's only at a fixed location when the GPS has enough time to lock into it's position that precisely.
And do a lot of averaging, which takes looooong.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:29 pm
by HiProfile
I got some freescale accelerometer chips (the older high sensitivity/5vdc kind) that I've been wanting to use with my SSI-4. Basicly it only needs a 5vdc input, ground, and output signal. A few caps/resistors help it read better, otherwise they're 1/3 the size of a eeprom chip. With no pull on the axis in question, it reads like 2.5 olts, 1g = 3.7v, -1g = 1.3 volts. The newer are less volts/G. The best part is the pricing is the same as their MAP sensors, at least per 1000 units. I never got around to testing them, since its been 1 thing after another. I'm still not 'done' with my car, lots of ideas to make into reality. edit: They still have the 5vdc at digikey for $11.51 ea, MMA1260EG-ND. IIRC they stopped production last summer, and the new units are 3.3vdc input.

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:55 am
by JaredKaragen
makafeli wrote:u can use racechrono: http://www.racechrono.com/ its a free program like dynolicious, only its for a symbian phones, i use it and it worked great...
Symbian ??? I can't believe I didn't see this post earlier... *visiting link*