hooking up exercise equipment to my computer

[Marcello]

Hi,

I am not sure where to begin looking for this, but figured here would be a
good start. I saw in a gym not too long ago where 2 exersize bikes were
hooked up to a monitor and you coudl compete on the screen versus the bike
next to it. I now have 2 stationary bikes in my home and was hoping to hook
them up like this. Does anyone know if this is even possible, and if so,
where to begin to figure it out. I have limited programming knoweledge, but
a decent enough budget to spend some good money to have it done right.

Thanks.

[IchBin]

Post by Marcello
Hi,
I am not sure where to begin looking for this, but figured here would be a
good start. I saw in a gym not too long ago where 2 exersize bikes were
hooked up to a monitor and you coudl compete on the screen versus the bike
next to it. I now have 2 stationary bikes in my home and was hoping to hook
them up like this. Does anyone know if this is even possible, and if so,
where to begin to figure it out. I have limited programming knoweledge, but
a decent enough budget to spend some good money to have it done right.
Thanks.

I would expect that he stationary bikes you have at home are electronic.
You have to see the specs on the bikes electronics for an i/o port. Once
you get that you would be able to write code to program it using
Javacomm. You may want to talk to the manufacture. This could save some
time. This is a very high level view.

This is what I would do if I wanted to do the same. I never did it but
once wanted to offload the data that was stored on my Diabetic blood
tester. Problem I had was the manufacture would not release any info. I
had to buy their hardware and software application from them.


Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA
http://weconsultants.servebeer.com/JHackerAppManager
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