Most cyclists while riding at a high speed wonder that on what speed are their moving at that particular moment. As majority of bikes do not feature a speedometer found on all motorbikes the cyclists are always left wondering. Until now there hasn’t been a way that could allow the cyclists to know their current speed in a cool way.
Well a new headlight has been created that might do the job for most cyclists and make them cool on the road. This headlight for bikes has been created using a speedometer, small projector and a Raspberry Pi. What is does is pretty awesome, it projects the current speed of the bicycle right in front of the moving bike so the user could see it and know on what speed he or she is actually going without taking eyes off the road.
The helmet was created by Matt Richardson who is planning to make it even better. He aims to extend its functionality and add toggle between number of modes through buttons so other information can also be shown to the cyclist other than just speed. The toggle buttons could be placed on the handlebars of the bicycle probably alongside gears.
The speed projecting helmet for bikes is perhaps the best thing we have seen so far for adding a speedometer for bikes however there are a few problems with it that need to be addressed. According to its creator he ran out of battery while making the video, which is a big concern for those who ride bikes for longer times however for those who occasionally ride bikes just for fun then it should work fine.
You can watch the speedometer headlight with projector and Raspberry Pi in action on the video on the source link.
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