Archive for the ‘ Autosport Labs ’ Category
We are excited to announce that Autosport Labs is the “Official Data Acquisition and Telemetry Partner” for the new BMW CCA Endurance Racing Series! Here is their Facebook post: “We are pleased to announce Autosport Labs as the “Data Acquisition and Telemetry Partner” for our series! Autosport Labs will be providing discounted [ READ MORE ]
Busy week at Autosport Labs! Here’s where we are on the projects: Fast tracking RaceCapture/Pro shipments We’re working on fulfilling the “Data Addict” wave of RaceCapture/Pro Indiegogo Perks – due end of March. We’ve received feedback from the Telemetry Perk backers asking: “Can we at least get our RaceCapture/Pro units early, while we wait for our telemetry modules?” The [ READ MORE ]
Are you an RF n00b? Maybe you know enough so that it’s not a complete blind spot in your work- enough that you ask a relative expert, like Greg Peek of Silicon Farmers when you need to lay out some high frequency traces. Greg took a look at my initial design around connecting an SMA connector to [ READ MORE ]
Jolt4 Ignition driver board What does one do when down for the count with illness, pumped up with antibiotics and prescription cough medicine? Why, they design some hardware. My friend, Karel Jennings was working on a coil on plug solution & wanted a driver board for his BMW Megasquirt project so we collaborated on a design. [ READ MORE ]
We’re honored to have our first guest author! Dave Robson, a Formula 750 driver/owner shares his experiences with the Megajolt system. Originally published in the 750 Motor Club bulletin Megajolt Ignition – Why you should fit one By Dave Robson There are a lot of car racing today still using carburetors and distributors. The more modern formulae have fuel [ READ MORE ]
Introduction The Megajolt/C is our next generation crank fired ignition system specially designed to work with the latest in ignition coil pack technologies. What sets Megajolt/C apart from other designs is the absence of built-in coil drivers: by moving these high-power drivers to external modules, we’ve been able to shrink the form factor while providing 8 [ READ MORE ]
…more or less. In motorsports, the rules must change in order to fine tune the competitive atmosphere and make sure everyone gets a fair chance at the glory that is winning. If change turns against you it might feel like a cold, cruel, sideways rain on your team’s fantasy-of-winning parade. At Autosport Labs it feels like… another work party! Thanks [ READ MORE ]
Forklift, Please What’s in this crate? Why it’s a shiny, new, custom enclosure for future projects! No, not the red one we blogged about earlier- that’s for the likes of projects such as RaceCapture and Megajolt2. Rather, these are more oriented toward compact designs like the current Megajolt ignition controller and other toys we’re working on. We [ READ MORE ]
Thursday, May 5th: On this occasion the Autosport Labs team headed to Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, CA to attend “Goin’ for Broken 2010″. That’s a 24 Hours of LeMons event for those of you not knowing. We suffered the minor inconvenience of an overheated wheel bearing near Tangent, OR and fixed it hoping that was [ READ MORE ]
As you can see, we’re hard at work making the Merkur safe. This is a topic that we take very seriously, especially in light of recent events. You may have seen footage of the crash at Sears Pointless, but we actually witnessed it. It’s given us a whole new perspective on what a “safe” race [ READ MORE ]
