someone beat me to the punch: patent

When I first thought of this project, back in late 2008, I did a patent search and was unable to find anything like what I had in mind.  Upon doing a search now, I have found a patent for a VERY similar design, pretty much covering all my ideas.  However my system is based around the LED member to be removed and become part of many other aspects in climbing games and nighttime events.  Kind of disappointing, but not really, because I never set out to get this idea patented or even make a dime off of it. Well, I'll be indirectly paid, by getting a job because of it, hopefully speaking.

The patent was just approved this Jan. 2010 and was filed back in mid 2009.

I am curious to know if I were to contact him and show this blog...could we collaborate?

cheers,

alex

sketches for "CONSTELLATiON"

I've found the name for this lit rocking climbing hold system, " Constellation".  I'm playing with some of the typeface and graphics.  The dot in the "i" of constellation will be integral to the graphics, the dot will be a hold.  I plan to have others, which will make up a line, indicating a route, or a constellation, a dotted path.

I've been cleaning up some sketches from the early development phases. 

final teaser page, confederate wraith muffler redesign

updated render, cap redesign angled at 325 degrees

Render update.  
Thanks to a friend, he noted that the redesigned cap would best be at an angle ( rather than at 0 degrees ).  He spotted something that was originally intended, it just happened to slip my mind when modeling/rendering.  The grand argument here is to redirect hot exhaust flow from the riders right foot, and having the redesigned cap at 325 degrees optimizes hot exhaust flow around the riders foot at a stop lights and at highway speeds.

render fun

final teaser image: process

Getting close to something finalized.  Need to work on the graphics, further clarity of images shown.

circular rfid

After studying a few rfid tags in a google image search, I made my own in illustrator.  Much better!

rfid added

I need a circular RFID, this web found square one isn't working. 

RFID Wave

This sketch is turning out nicely! This is the second step in the process. After route selection, the user will wave his RFID tag and begin climbing.  This system would track all routes attempted and completed.

I'm going to add the RFID plate on the the tab.

&Rock Project - Start Button: Cycle Progression

The start button is the beginning of the climbers experience.  Upon selection of a route, the user will press the start button, and it will light up on the number and "a", dictating the first, and easiest route.  The user can keep pressing it, the routes will get progressively harder, until it cycles back to "a".