Dashmellow
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The developer calls it the RIDEYE" - The Black Box Camera For Your Bike. Rideye was started by Cedric Bosch, a mechanical engineer and avid cyclist. Bosch was inspired to start the project after a friend of his was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident.
This is an interesting project on Kickstarter that is basically a dash cam designed specifically for the bicycle market. Technically, it is not up to the standards we enjoy in our dash cameras as it only records in 720P (at least for now) and there is no indication that it displays or records any information on the footage such as date and time. It does record in five minute segments and can record up to ten hours on 32GB of internal memory or 2.5 hours in the 8GB model but I'm sure we would want a removable microSD card. It has a tri-axis G-sensor but lacks some of the other features we expect on our dash cams. Yet it has one major feature that I have never seen on any other camera of this type that I think could be an interesting solution to the challenge of parking mode as it claims 24 hours of battery life. It claims to do this with the "latest" Panasonic Lithium-ion batteries which appear to be two protected NCR Panasonic 3.6V - 4.2V 3400 mAh 18650Bs.
These are the same batteries used in most laptop computers (usually eight of them) and that are gradually gaining acceptance in other products. 18650 batteries are also the same ones used in the Tesla automobile. While heat is an issue here as with all batteries of this type a lot of work has gone into making them safer and they have been used more and more in challenging environments. I have a lot of personal experience with this type of battery and they require caution and common sense but I've never had any problem with them even when used in sometimes hot environments like high output flashlights. I don't yet know if they would be suitable for dash cam use but the Rideye is an intriguing concept.
This is a pretty new product in the early stages of development. There's no reason not to believe that future iterations of the Rideye won't graduate to 1080P or add new features such as time and date stamps, etc., assuming the product gets off the ground and becomes a viable niche business and so I thought it worthy of discussion here. I imagine many people would opt for a GoPro or perhaps a Mobius for this purpose but the battery life of this thing could be it's killer feature. The creater of the Rideye may even come to realize there are other possible markets for a camera with this kind of battery life that he could branch into with further development.
Here and there on this forum we've discussed the option of using auxiliary battery power packs with dash cams but this built-in high capacity approach could perhaps spark some interesting DIY modifications to existing cams. It wouldn't be too hard to use the guts of a Mobius and protected 18650 or even perhaps lower capacity 14500 3.7 volt (AA) Li-ion batteries to power a dash-cam-worthy version of this type of camera to be used in time lapse or parking mode for extended periods of time.
This is an interesting project on Kickstarter that is basically a dash cam designed specifically for the bicycle market. Technically, it is not up to the standards we enjoy in our dash cameras as it only records in 720P (at least for now) and there is no indication that it displays or records any information on the footage such as date and time. It does record in five minute segments and can record up to ten hours on 32GB of internal memory or 2.5 hours in the 8GB model but I'm sure we would want a removable microSD card. It has a tri-axis G-sensor but lacks some of the other features we expect on our dash cams. Yet it has one major feature that I have never seen on any other camera of this type that I think could be an interesting solution to the challenge of parking mode as it claims 24 hours of battery life. It claims to do this with the "latest" Panasonic Lithium-ion batteries which appear to be two protected NCR Panasonic 3.6V - 4.2V 3400 mAh 18650Bs.
These are the same batteries used in most laptop computers (usually eight of them) and that are gradually gaining acceptance in other products. 18650 batteries are also the same ones used in the Tesla automobile. While heat is an issue here as with all batteries of this type a lot of work has gone into making them safer and they have been used more and more in challenging environments. I have a lot of personal experience with this type of battery and they require caution and common sense but I've never had any problem with them even when used in sometimes hot environments like high output flashlights. I don't yet know if they would be suitable for dash cam use but the Rideye is an intriguing concept.
This is a pretty new product in the early stages of development. There's no reason not to believe that future iterations of the Rideye won't graduate to 1080P or add new features such as time and date stamps, etc., assuming the product gets off the ground and becomes a viable niche business and so I thought it worthy of discussion here. I imagine many people would opt for a GoPro or perhaps a Mobius for this purpose but the battery life of this thing could be it's killer feature. The creater of the Rideye may even come to realize there are other possible markets for a camera with this kind of battery life that he could branch into with further development.
Here and there on this forum we've discussed the option of using auxiliary battery power packs with dash cams but this built-in high capacity approach could perhaps spark some interesting DIY modifications to existing cams. It wouldn't be too hard to use the guts of a Mobius and protected 18650 or even perhaps lower capacity 14500 3.7 volt (AA) Li-ion batteries to power a dash-cam-worthy version of this type of camera to be used in time lapse or parking mode for extended periods of time.
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