{"id":171721,"date":"2010-01-12T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/12\/project-excitebike-excercycle-accelerator-for-racing-games\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T00:53:08","slug":"project-excitebike-excercycle-accelerator-for-racing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/171721","title":{"rendered":"Project ExciteBike: excercycle accelerator for racing games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\nPutting on a few inches from playing games all day? Maybe you should invent yourself an exercise machine that controls in-game acceleration so you don&#8217;t just sit there all day, lazy one. Man, I think I need one of these that controls tab changing in Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07297_whole_bike1.JPG\" alt=\"whole_bike1\" width=\"617\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133961\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/aos0e\/i_hooked_up_my_exercise_bike_to_my_xbox_now\/c0ingi7\">says at Reddit <\/a>that he only used about $70 worth of parts in addition to the exercycle itself. Basically a magnet on the wheel triggers a series of sensors, and the frequency with which the sensors are hit determines the &#8220;pressure&#8221; on the analog stick. I&#8217;m thinking it must be pretty hard to use the controller at the same time. I&#8217;d fall off right away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projectexcitebike.blogspot.com\/\">More info and schematics at the project&#8217;s site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GA7VsX-RGcaaCo8y3Z1-VIdeD44\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07297_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/GA7VsX-RGcaaCo8y3Z1-VIdeD44\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07297_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=096ygt7yy0A:dOEPr_C2qtU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07297_crunchgear?i=096ygt7yy0A:dOEPr_C2qtU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=096ygt7yy0A:dOEPr_C2qtU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07297_crunchgear?i=096ygt7yy0A:dOEPr_C2qtU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=096ygt7yy0A:dOEPr_C2qtU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/31dcf_crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/01\/12\/project-excitebike-excercycle-accelerator-for-racing-games\/\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting on a few inches from playing games all day? Maybe you should invent yourself an exercise machine that controls in-game acceleration so you don&#8217;t just sit there all day, lazy one. Man, I think I need one of these that controls tab changing in Firefox. The creator says at Reddit that he only used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}