Just another update... In preparation for the Sunday Challenge, we have been working on building our own timing gear to use for the autocross and sccotercross events for the club at these larger events. In the past, for the BBB, we have used Shenandoah Valley Governor School's timing equipment they bring down and have not had our own. Well, now we do!
Matt Graham was able to get 2 industrial photo switches donated to the club and he and I put the hardware together this week. Cris Estanislao volunteered to write an application in LabView for the timing. Well, he did much more than that! He delivered an awesome application that not only does the timing, but race and driver management as well. It allows for up to 50 drivers and 12 runs per driver, penalties, DNF's and exports it all out to Excel when the race is over. We tested it today at Coastal Tire (Thanks Bob!) today and it works great. We now have our very own timing equipment and race management software - a similar commercial version would have been over $400, we built for under a $100!! Huge thanks goes to Matt and Cris for helping make this happen, this is going to be a huge asset to the club!!! Thanks, Shawn Waggoner FL EAA _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
