DES-Bike at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2010
The DES-Bike is a Persistence of Vision (PoV) display mounted into a bike wheel. It consists of an LED bar with 34 RGB-LEDs and an MSB-A2 wireless sensor nodes. The sensor node adjusts the LED switch time via a reed switch to the current bike speed, resulting in a fixed image location for the observer.

Sample images displayed on DES-Bike
The sensor node allows us to connect the DES-Bike with the wireless sensor network of the DES-Testbed using the Chipcon CC1100 transceiver. Additionally, the sensor node is equipped with a Bluetooth module that enables connections with nearby wireless mesh routers of the DES-Testbed. The hardware for this fun device was designed and constructed by Dr.-Ing Achim Liers.
Next to all the fun of riding the DES-Bike around displaying colorful images, we will use the DES-Bike for tracking applications on our campus based on the wireless sensor network of the DES-Testbed. Depending on the location of the DES-Bike, information of the current state of the DES-Testbed is displayed such as its closest neighboring sendor node.

The set-up of the DES-Bike, consisting of an RGB-LED bar with 34 LEDs and one of our MSB-A2 sensor nodes. The sensor node allows us to connect the DES-Bike to the DES-Testbed using the Chipcon CC1100 transceiver of the MSB-A2 sensor nodes. Additionally, a Bluetooth module enables communication with nearby WiFi mesh backbone routers.
We presented the DES-Bike at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2010. The DES-Bike was connected to a laptop computer on which a programm with a simple GUI allowed visitors to select images and text messages and send them via Bluetooth to the DES-Bike. A selection of sample images can be seen below.

More sample images for the DES-Bike
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