mglobe

Ok, one of the smart guys here ought to be able to figure out how to wire this think to a traqmate so that when you start the traqmate, it sends a signal to this thing to start the Aiptek camera recording.

http://www.rcdude.com/servlet/the-13...Control/Detail

I'll bet it can be done...

Maybe by tapping into the signal that comes out of this:

http://store.traqmate.com/ProductDet...uctCode=890028

onefastviking

I'm smart , I figured out how. Here ya go, video starts with Traqmate....

http://store.traqmate.com/ProductDet...ctCode=1880026

Or this with it's own remote control, it's a great setup that I use on a few of our cars.

http://www.vio-pov.com/products/pov_15.php

Let me know when you want me to hook it up for you.

mglobe

I said smart guy, not smartass...

Point well taken Viking, but I'm looking for a way to make these cheap (~$100) HD cameras start when you start your traqmate rather than spend $600 for a lower resolution camera.

Jerseybean

I like the POV system, great video and can be taken out of the car

Bryan Watts

I've been meaning to install a start/stop switch on the dash but haven't gotten around to taking the camera apart and wiring it up. It's just a contact switch. Should be easy enough to extend that out of the camera with wires.

paradisenb

Chase Cam is coming out with a high def version later this year.

APKhaos

Wiring an external Record start/stop is the easy bit.
The real challenge is an external state line for Recording/Not recording. At the very least you'd want a LED or similar indication of the current state of the camera. This is for manual operation, of course.

To control the camera with a logger requires a simple state machine that monitors the camera state [recording/not recording], and switches record on at the start of a session and off at the end.
Racepak have a couple of VNet modules that do exactly that for the ChaseCam and one of the Stable Images cameras. The challenge with the Aiptek is finding a reliable state signal that can be externalized without hurting the camera's operation.

onefastviking

Smart guy, smart ***, smart *** guy, I fit all of those !

Remind me to show you some video with it. I'll bring my big drive with some cool video to show at the next DE or when you come by the new shop. The you tell me what you think.