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SmartyCam Tested - The Ultimate Kart Training Tool
Monday, 15 June 2009 11:29

I just got my hands on the new onboard camera from AiM and I had to buy one immediately.  It does everything that AiM GPS data loggers do already and gives you a top quality video playback to see for yourself what the driver actually did to gain or lose time. Smarty Cam official UK site

Here's the video it produced at Hooton Park last Saturday:-

 

 
 
 
As you can see from the video we asked the SmartyCam to display the speed of the kart, the lap time and also the throttle trace (via ebox). The camera is connected to the Mychron 4 and supplies GPS data to the Mychron for analysis on RS2 so we can look at the data and directly relate that to the video, especially because the video displays the lap number!
 
Here are the screenshots of the data that the SmartyCam produces:-
 
SmartyCam supplies GPS data
 
SmartyCam Measures Graphs
 
So with the SmartyCam connected directly to your Mychron you no longer have to even interpret the data and make educated guesses about what the driver did to produce his fastest runs through a corner (Finding time on the brakes with GPS article), you can watch it in high quality video  and make sure the driver goes out and does it again.  Buying one of these is a no brainer, I bought my SmartyCam here