I’ve been busy with applying strain gauges to the new Sram Rival OCT crank.  These are the omega double shear gauges that were posted about earlier.  Some interesting photos but [ … ]

Text post today as I’m still waiting on parts to arrive. I’m anxiously awaiting availability of the nRF51422 Dev Kit and debating going to the Global Tech tour in Boston, [ … ]

Parts are starting to arrive for the V3 Power Meter. The first item to arrive in are the new shear strain gauges. I’ve never used Omega Strain Gauges, only Vishay [ … ]

As promised in a previous post, here is the Kurt Kinetic Power Meter Mark I. Note, that the ANT+ key HAS BEEN REMOVED so you will need to re-insert it [ … ]

I’ve decided to migrate to the AP2 module for V3 as previously alluded to. So that means I need to mount the AP2 module via connector or soldering to the [ … ]

I’m starting to get some new traffic and I really appreciate it. Again, feel free to email me or post comments. I’m eager to hear people’s feedback — I suspect people are [ … ]

Have you ever been use to using a piece of hardware, or software, and then turn around to order new parts only to find that they are deprecated, unavailable, or [ … ]

Power meters are essentially a combination of torque and cadence. Torque  (N-M) times angular velocity (rad/s) = power (watts). Cyclists generally know about their cadence through a magnet on the [ … ]

Once upon a time during my Master’s degree I was exposed to building a load cell. It was a very very small load cell. In reality this was just an [ … ]

As a mechanical engineer I tend to need Windows software, especially during the days of my masters degree, which is when I actually did this hack. I did however want [ … ]