Hardware & Software Design

Hardware

Sub woofer

The newly found minirig speakers, first used on the sonic trike, also come with a small self powered sub woofer and so BRI plans are forming to integrate the sub into new sonic bikes designs, adding bass to the biking experience.

Software

Pure data

A series of BRI hosted Pure data workshops in spring 2016 with a view to working with live data inputs from sonic bike riding in future. Led by Andy Farnell with Kaffe and a brilliant new group of BRI coders.

Others

Speaker positioning

There is ongoing need to design bars that hold speakers in a variety of positions, for different riding situations. A new adjustable speaker bar is on the horizon thanks to Cameron, Kaffe and Sukander.

Tandems and cargo bikes

Ideas of sonic biking for families in cargo bikes and pairs on tandems is leading investigation into new designs for the travelling sonic bike group. A future BRI aim for Kaffe and Lisa.