Yep. Which climbs have you attempted, at what grades.
My gym uses griptonite, but it's so slow I feel like it'd be quicker overall to create my own app for logging things. I decided to use instantdb as a backend database and it's working nicely so far.
I'd love to see a smart Hold that integrates with an app where the gym cann associate holds/grips in a DB inventory - and pull them out and assign them to a boulder/wall & route. The smart holds have simple pressure sensors for knowing when they are gripped, and for how long. Advanced ones measure force/weight.
Just walk in scan the boulder's code to slurp in all the holds to the local table and then you have them all ping back to the app with every touch. and map your route and exactly telemetry applied using route. So it shows you the wall and the grips you hit as you went up and how much energy and time spend on each node.
Report climbing timings and accomplishemnets on the Gym leaderboard... have challenges - subscribe to a wall/route/buolder and set a threashold to show you when anyone beats your time etc etc
Strava for the actual climb. (The gym could then have a db of all the positions fastener locations in the facility, and then simply assign a hold to a given slot - each hold has a json of its Spec-Sheet for hold type, rating, syle/whatever metrics climbing geeks geek out on, I mean get a grip folks)
Anyway - it would allow for the local climbing app to them maintain a db history of every route and grip and difficulty you've actually touched. Rate the hold-types, routes, wall, boulder - and have that realtime update across al clients subscribed to a wall or gym. A gym can post new routes and have your app subscribers just get the new table for that route and what grips and their profiles each have.)
Then (the not eco friendly version) is epoxy a BLE tag to a routes holds in the wild and you can have the app point at the climb and ping all the BLEs and learn the route - and have ClimbGps - and it can run it locally with a dynamic table of the BLEs it can sense as checkpoints as you pass them (obviously only timing data could be saved unless you do RSSI/something to get vertical and horizontal pathing by triangulating ...
(built these features in previous varying capacities for different things - but climbing would be fun to do it with as well.
I am sure there are already smart grips out there... but this rappelled into my thoughts like Tom Cruise as soon as I read your post.
My gym uses TopLogger. It's not super bad, but it could use a nicer design. Are you making an app for indoor gyms or outdoor boulders? Or both? Sounds good with another alternative in the market.
IanCal|1 year ago
My gym uses griptonite, but it's so slow I feel like it'd be quicker overall to create my own app for logging things. I decided to use instantdb as a backend database and it's working nicely so far.
samstave|1 year ago
I'd love to see a smart Hold that integrates with an app where the gym cann associate holds/grips in a DB inventory - and pull them out and assign them to a boulder/wall & route. The smart holds have simple pressure sensors for knowing when they are gripped, and for how long. Advanced ones measure force/weight.
Just walk in scan the boulder's code to slurp in all the holds to the local table and then you have them all ping back to the app with every touch. and map your route and exactly telemetry applied using route. So it shows you the wall and the grips you hit as you went up and how much energy and time spend on each node.
Report climbing timings and accomplishemnets on the Gym leaderboard... have challenges - subscribe to a wall/route/buolder and set a threashold to show you when anyone beats your time etc etc
Strava for the actual climb. (The gym could then have a db of all the positions fastener locations in the facility, and then simply assign a hold to a given slot - each hold has a json of its Spec-Sheet for hold type, rating, syle/whatever metrics climbing geeks geek out on, I mean get a grip folks)
Anyway - it would allow for the local climbing app to them maintain a db history of every route and grip and difficulty you've actually touched. Rate the hold-types, routes, wall, boulder - and have that realtime update across al clients subscribed to a wall or gym. A gym can post new routes and have your app subscribers just get the new table for that route and what grips and their profiles each have.)
Then (the not eco friendly version) is epoxy a BLE tag to a routes holds in the wild and you can have the app point at the climb and ping all the BLEs and learn the route - and have ClimbGps - and it can run it locally with a dynamic table of the BLEs it can sense as checkpoints as you pass them (obviously only timing data could be saved unless you do RSSI/something to get vertical and horizontal pathing by triangulating ...
(built these features in previous varying capacities for different things - but climbing would be fun to do it with as well.
I am sure there are already smart grips out there... but this rappelled into my thoughts like Tom Cruise as soon as I read your post.
gsala|1 year ago