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Day: November 17, 2010

Temporary Signs for River Bends Trails

Here’s the temporary trail markers (previously) for River Bends. Hopefully I’ll get them installed either tomorrow or Friday. 50 pieces were acquired, and I intend to use 20-30 of them on the trail saving the rest for spares / updating / vandalism replacements. I particularly like that I’ll be able to position the arrows as I see fit. I’ll have to figure out a good way to illustrate the seasonal loop and possibly the way back to the parking lot, but as these are temporary I may just add that with a marker.

I feel a bit bad because the it turns out that the sign place drastically underquoted me, and the vinyl application took up a good part of his day. I guess in the future these same signs will be roughly $3/ea instead of the quoted $1/ea. I feel bad about it, but at the time the price seemed reasonable, and it is what I was quoted.

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NiteRider Pro Docking Station Internals

This is the inside of the NiteRider Pro Docking Station (a dual-purpose battery charger / headlight programmer) that came with the NiteRider Pro 1400. While using the programming software to set up the brightness settings that I wanted (to avoid another way too bright ride) I noticed that the base station appeared as USB VID 0403 and PID 6001, FTDI’s defaults. This had me a bit curious, so I opened it up to look around.

Beyond the charging circuitry, LEDs, lightpipes, custom connectors, and an unlabeled button (reset?) I found an FTDI FT232RL (U1), Microchip PIC PIC24J32GA004 (U2), Atmel AT45DB011 (U4), and a National Semiconductor LMV344MT (U6). I made no effort to trace out the board, but it’s pretty easy to tell that the FT232RL is used so the NiteRider D.I.Y. software can just talk to a serial port which will make it very portable to different OSs.

Perhaps later I’ll try and figure out just what the software sends to the base station for programming the light. Maybe then I could work up a Mac version of the program.

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NiteRider TriNewt Wireless For Sale

Since I’ve acquired a NiteRider Pro 1400 my TriNewt Wireless (originally mentioned here) is up for sale. This light and battery are in great shape, I’m just selling it because I no longer have a need for it. It’s a great light for trail riding year round and had I not picked up a brighter light I’d still be using it.

This is the complete TriNewt Wireless package, which includes:

· Light Unit
· Battery
· Charger
· Helmet Mount
· Handle Bar Mount for Light
· Handle Bar Mount for Remote Control
· Frame Mounting Strap for Battery
· NiteRider Carrying Case

Asking price is $200, and I will ship domestically and internationally at buyer’s expense. Email me at c0nsumer@nuxx.net if you are interested.

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