Google Street View Treadmill

This is [Thomas Clauser’s] Google Street View enabled treadmill. He points out that most of the Street View hacks use a measurement of rotational movement to interface with a computer. He respects that but didn’t want to take the time to make it work with his treadmill. Instead, he used a stealth switch propped up on a book below the treadmill frame, but any switch can be used as long as you know how to connect it to the computer. When you stand on the treadmill the frame flexes and almost clicks the button, but when you start running it moves the rest of the ways and closes the switch. From there an autohotkey script is used to advance Street View.

Per i non anglofoni (rara avis): il tizio in questione ha applicato uno switch meccanico al suo tapis roulant che gli permette di “avanzare” in Google Street View mentre corre. Una soluzione un po’ artigianale che però evita di spaccarsi le palle annoiarsi mentre si fa esercizio indoor, e permette anche di togliersi belle soddisfazioni, come ad esempio fare footing per la 5th Avenue o davanti alle Piramidi.

A mio avviso con un ventilatore davanti che simula il vento diventerebbe perfetto!

Via Hack a day