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snipped-for-privacy@bellatlantic.net (ehsjr) wrote in :
jerry wrote:
>> Gurus,
>>
>> I need your help...
>>
>> I am an amateur triathlete and I'm getting ready for the start of the
>> triathlon season and I had this problem last year that I'm trying to
>> solve.
>>
>> The problem is that during an open-water triathlon swim I need to skip
>> a stroke every so often to lift my head out of the water and site the
>> next turn buoy. I usually find myself off course by a few yards and
>> need to make corrections. This costs me time from being off course
>> and from skipping a stroke. So, I had this idea to take apart an old
>> digital camera or picture phone and mount the camera part to the back
>> of my head and attach the LCD part in front of my goggles.
>>
>> Sound crazy? I did a Google search and found that someone has
>> patented the same idea...
>>
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>> -20060620.html
>>
>> The thing is, as far as I can tell it's never been built, and I need
>> your help to build it.
>>
>> I took apart a digital camera and was able to power it up and get an
>> image on the LCD, but the LCD is connected to the camera by what looks
>> like a proprietary 24 wire ribbon cable and connector that I would
>> need to build an extension to. Any ideas if that is possible? It
>> would need to be about 15"-20" long to go from the back of my head to
>> the front of my goggles. The ribbon is about 1" now. Do you think
>> the picture quality would get much worse at 15"?
>>
>> Another issue is that the camera has a lot of extra stuff on it that I
>> don't need. Do you think there is a way to trim it down to just the
>> ccd, lcd, a battery and a switch? Do you think a phone would be a
>> better starting point? I took apart a broken camera phone and I was
>> able to separate the pieces - but it has the same issue - a very thin
>> proprietary ribbon cable.
>>
>> Any other ideas? Am I crazy?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jerry
>>
>> p.s. please respond to my e-mail and the group.
>>
>
>Fun experiment, but it will slow you down a lot
>due to the additional drag and to the time it will
>cost as you try to get a good visual fix with it.
>
>Most people would call me a strong distance swimmer,
>but those who know - good swimmers - would correctly
>call me a crappy swimmer. (~ 36 minutes per mile)
>But even being crappy, I can look when I breath
>during every fourth stroke, so you can, too, without
>missing a stroke. You do have to modify the head
>rotation when there's a lot of churn, so the fourth
>stroke is marginally less effective than it is in the
>pool. But heck - if there's enough churn, follow it.
>The guys/gals making it are heading for the same buoy.
>
>Ed
>