I understand that the current wireless wheel module is not suitable for the DIY market. As it appears to be using a BLE connection and there are many BLE Arduino devices around, would it be possible for the protocol specification to be published with a non-commercial liscense for DIYers?
I’ve already made a wireless wheel using a couple of Bluefruit BLE devices but it would be cleaner to have the wheel buttons running through the SC2 instead of a separate device. My solution uses central / peripheral roles so if the SC2 was using something similar it wouldn’t take too much work to have the wheel connect directly to the base.
We want to have this as a closed source / proprietary system so that we can control the devices as much as possible and keep solutions with varying quality away from the Simucube Wireless Wheel system.
If there were X amount of random DIY solutions on the market that were compatible (which will be inevitable to happen if there is a one well-published DIY solution for it), then the quality and properties of the system as whole would vary a lot and a buyer would not know what quality he buys…
Mika, in a previous thread I think you mentioned that there was another device for the wheel side in early development that would be more consumer focused. Is that still the case?
There is a new version for the wheel-side module in early development right now. It will be even less DIY-oriented, and more geared towards wheel manufacturers.
There will be news about 3rd-party breakouts for the first wheel-side module soon, but I’m not allowed to tell anything more on that.